Alice was walking into a London shopping centre when she was approached by a man wearing smart glasses. She says she had no idea she was being filmed. 'In the moment I just thought OK this guy is just trying to talk to me, to chat me up,' she said. 'I was hoping that he would leave me alone eventually but he did actually follow me.'
"Any numbers that we see, it's the tip of the iceberg," said Melissa Stroebel, vice president of research and strategic insights at Thorn, a nonprofit that builds technology to combat online child sexual exploitation. "That is about what has been either detected or proactively reported."
A Massachusetts man is facing kidnapping and rape charges after allegedly traveling to New York to meet a 14-year-old girl. New York State Police arrested Estefan D. Henriquez, 29, of Lynn, following an investigation into the exploitation of minors online. Henriques allegedly had sexually explicit conversations with the victim and made arrangements to travel to New York to meet her.
