Friday, July 18, 2008

H*ly Sh*t!

Like the rest of the world, I am a HUGE Oprah fan. Her show gets TiVo'd daily at the HinJew household. If I get the chance, I watch it after the children go to bed.

If you have children and have not yet watched yesterday's show, go do it now. Really. Right now. You need to see it.

Until I saw yesterday's show, I had no clue that a Webcam is a pedophile's biggest dream-come-true. Merely plugging it in brings this slime into the bedrooms of our children where these perverts lure and manipulate our children into doing all sorts of lurid acts.

Yesterday's show highlighted a young boy, age 13 at the time, who plugged in a Webcam to enable him to speak to his friends online and, perhaps, meet some girls. He thought that the people he was talking to were 13 year-old boys just like him. They weren't. They were pedophiles and lured him into doing all sorts of things. Read his story now.

It's horrifying enough to learn this news. Yet it gets worse. With the help of a NY Times investigative reporter, they learn the identities of the boy's 1500 "clients". Many of them were pediatricians, teachers, guidance counselors, and other professionals with easy access to children. It truly frightens me as a parent to know that the people I trust the most with my children might hurt them.

But anything I say here cannot do justice to the excellent job Oprah and her team do in portraying the information. Please, watch it now.

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