Online chat room warning
Friday 6th November 2009, 2:59PM GMT.
Acting police chief David Warcup.
JERSEY police are warning parents to be vigilant about what their children do online and in chat rooms days after a teenager was killed in the UK after meeting someone from Facebook.
Ashleigh Hall (17) was found dead in Durham after allegedly meeting a man that she had been chatting to on Facebook. A 32-year-old man has been charged with her kidnap and manslaughter.
The Acting Chief Officer of the States police, David Warcup, said that Jersey officers had seen a significant increase in the number of offences where children and young people had been exploited online.
There are a number of cases related to internet offences going through the Jersey judicial system at the moment. The JEP reported yesterday how a ‘sex tourist’ and leading UK academic, Trevor Jackson, admitted travelling to the Island for sex with a 13-year-old girl he groomed on the internet. He now faces jail when he is sentenced in January.
Advice to parents is being offered at the Don Theatre on Wednesday at 6.30 pm to 7.30 pm and Thursday from 1.30 pm to 2.30 pm.
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If kids can get away with doing this during school lessons when they are supposedly supervised there’s not much chance of the parents’ being able to fare any better!!!
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@ Mogit. Where does it say that children were accessing chatrooms during school lessons.
And believe it or not, here are still parents that monitor, supervise and control their kids closer than school teachers.
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