The Dangers of the Internet

... The Dangers of the Internet In early 2000 a man named Robert Colehill was sentenced to six months imprisonment. His crime? Not small-scale theft or violence, as the sentence suggests, but the intended abuse of many young children. Colehill, a 53 year old man from West Sussex, posed as a teenager to lure children into meeting him. After his arrest, many children stepped forward to talk of their own experiences with Colehill on the Internet, and it was revealed that he had approached literally hundreds of children. Some had ended conversations with him after he got too 'pushy' trying to set up meeting places, some arranged to meet him but left as soon as they saw his true identity, but one teenage boy actually met with Colehill, who tried to force himself on the boy. The boy's parents alerted the police and one officer posed as a 13 year old

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