what is grooming?
With today's development on the internet, it opens for big opportunities for the predators. Internet has become a simple tool for finding what they want. With the internet, they hide themselves behind a monitor and pretending to be a completely different person. An example can be that a 50-year-old man pretending to be an 18-year-old boy, so he can get contact with younger girls, and widens to meet younger people. This is why young people must be careful to have contact with unknown persons. There are too many unrecorded cases.
The problem with the online predators is unfortunately too big for the police to handle. The police catch many of the predators, but unfortunately not all of them. It would take a long time and many resources to capture online predators for the police.
The Internet can also be used for harassing. Some people are posting pornographic pictures / videos of other humans. This can be incredible harmful for the victim who has been violated by pornographic pictures/videos on the internet. The reason for this is that the victim most likely would struggle mentally with this later. To publish these types of pictures / videos online has sadly become a new bullying trend. Online Abuse and digital violence can be: • Harassing and ugly messages posted online • Threats or coercion through messages about the proliferation of images and movies • Monitoring and control at mobile phone or social media • Being exposed to a sexual language or to receive photos and movies with a sexual or violent content • Being pressured to do sexual acts in front of a webcam, posing, stripping, and having intercourse or similar actions • Switching and selling sexual services • Sexual abuse |