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PARENTS - Pay Attention to Your Kid's Online Accounts!

I just turned in an instagram page to the missing and exploited children's sites because pictures of teen girls sent into this site from their boyfriends. I am hoping Instagram shuts this trash down and whoever is running it is arrested. PLEASE parents, check the phones, cams, accounts, facebook, instagram, etc of your children. Just because you think they're angels, doesn't mean they aren't sending pics of themselves to other teens. I was alerted to the page by a concerned person who accidentally followed it and brought it to my attention knowing I would turn it in. For obvious reasons I will not post the account name here and please don't ask what the account name is in a private message because I will not tell you unless you show me a badge and a warrant for you could be some sicko trying to get the page. I'm that serious about protecting kids.

There is another investigation going on down in the Southern California area where a twitter account threatened to expose teen pics if something didn't happen, I don't remember exactly what, but these people are under investigation as well.

My point is, get their passwords, check their phones, get accounts where you can see the messages they send out, and record the log files of each and every Internet site they visit. I hate to be mother hen, but someone has to do it.

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