Internet Predators

I'm sure you've all see the Dateline NBC reports on internet predators by now. They set up sting operations where deputies pose as underage posters (often as young as 12 years old) in internet chatrooms in order to catch sex offenders.

I saw this headline - Man kills self after Internet meeting - on IndyStar.com today and of course the Dateline reports were the first thing that came to my mind. A Michigan man drove to the home of a 16 year old Lebanon, IN girl after meeting her on the internet. He then threatened to kill her and himself. She managed to call police and save herself, but the man shot and killed himself on her front porch. She's lucky to be alive.

Parents, please remember to monitor your children's internet activity. You never know what kind of dangerous wacko may be out there just waiting to prey on the innocent.