#stop-online-predators-act

#stop-online-predators-act

Fernando Melo Flores, 40, faces up to four years and two months in prison if convicted on all counts. He was assigned to John Wayne Airport when he allegedly went to his ex-girlfriend's home at night and repeatedly called and texted her, prompting the woman to get a restraining order against him.

Jack Jansen, 52, was convicted of sexually abusing a 7-year-old child in Berkeley a decade ago. With Jansen's jail sentence over, the sibling has made new allegations of abuse.

Carlo Tritta, 19, has been locked up for 28 months after pleading guilty to various offences including making indecent images of a child and sexual communications with a child.

The Molly Rose Foundation (MRF) said online networks linked to a global ecosystem labelled the Com were carrying out extreme exploitation, cyberbullying, violence and abuse and called for a coordinated global response from governments, regulators, law enforcement and tech companies. The warning follows the publication of a report by the online risk consultancy Resolver in partnership with the MRF, which was founded by the family of Molly Russell, a British teenager who killed herself in 2017 after viewing harmful content online.

The KIDS Act, which is sponsored by Congressman Brett Guthrie (R-KY), encompasses several child safety laws. That includes a version of the latest House Republican update to the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) without the "duty of care" provision central to the Senate's bipartisan version of the bill, which requires big tech platforms to mitigate risks to minors.

As parents, we did everything we could to teach our kids how to use social media responsibly and monitor their usage, but it still wasn't enough. Our sons, Carson and David, suffered from relentless cyberbullying that resulted in them taking their own lives. As we navigated our own grief and struggled to understand the pain that overwhelmed our sons, we met each other - and even more "survivor parents" who have experienced similar loss.

"The off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who killed Keith Porter, Jr. has a history of racism, child abuse, and explosive tempers. Despite murdering Porter in cold blood, Brian Palacios remains free without charge and employed by ICE," the groups' website states, invoking the name of Porter, a Black 43-year-old father of two who was fatally shot by an ICE officer on New Year's Eve outside his apartment complex

A man who threatened to rape a teenage girl and encouraged her to self-harm has been jailed. Shabaz Khokar, 24, from London, sent the threat to the victim in Staffordshire via social media, along with images of train tickets he booked to travel to her home. He was arrested at a railway station in the county in August when police were alerted.

Age verification technologies are some of the most child-protective technologies to emerge in decades. Our statement incentivizes operators to use these innovative tools, empowering parents to protect their children online.

At least 14 boys aged 14 to 17 were allegedly lured into Meyers' scheme to send him nude photos and sex videos, which he used to blackmail the minors. Meyers was charged with trafficking in minors, sexual extortion, unlawful contact with a minor, distribution of child sexual abuse material, criminal use of a communication facility, and more following his arrest.