Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1992 15:44:51 EST
From: anonymous@cont.edu
Subject: File 7--Pedophilia, Computers and Children

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NEWS RELEASE                          Immediate 3/18/92

PEDOPHILIA, COMPUTERS AND CHILDREN

If you have children in your home and a hom e computer complete with a
telephone modum, you [sic] child is in potential danger of coming in
contact with deviate and dangerous criminals.

Using the computer modum [sic], these unsavory individuals can
communicate directly with your child without your knowledge.  Just as
importantly, you should be concerned if your child has a friendship
with other youth who have access to this equipment in an unsupervised
environment.

Using a computer and a modum your child can readily access community
"bulletin boards" and receive sexually explicit and graphic material
from total strangers who can converse with your children, individuals
you quite probably wouldn't even talk with.

The concern becomes more poignant when stated otherwise; would you let
a child molester, murderer, convicted criminal into your home to meet
alone with your child?

According to Fresno Police Detective Frank Clark "your child can be in
real danger from pedophiles, rapists, satanic cultists and other
criminals knows to be actively engaged in computer conversation.
Unwittingly, naive children with a natural curiosity can be victimized;
 emerging healthy sexual feelings of a child can be subverted into a
twisted unnatural fetish affecting youth during a vulnerable time in
their lives."

It is anticipated that parents, when armed with knowledge this
activity exists and awareness that encounters with such deviate
individuals results in emotional and psychological damage to their
child, will take appropriate measures to eliminate the possibility of
strangers interacting with their children via a computer.

A news conference is scheduled for 10 a.m., Thursday, March 19, 1992
at Fresno Police Department, Headquarters.  The conference, presided
over by Detective Frank Clark, will be held in the Library located on
the second floor.

For Further Information: P.I.O. Ron Hults (209) 498-4568

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