A man was arrested and charged with three counts of sexual assault of a child after detectives say he made arrangements to meet with juveniles through social media.
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Hernan Duarte was arrested on Tuesday after Duarte meeting an undercover detectives who he thought was a teen at a local park in The Woodlands, according to Constable Ryan Gable’s detectives.KPRC 2 anchor Owen Conflenti spoke to Rania Mankarious, CEO of Crime Stoppers Houston, on Thursday morning to give parents tips on how to protect their children who use social media.
Q: How can we help our children understand the dangers of talking to strangers online and the risks of sharing any person information?The hard part is our kids don’t recognize that these individuals are, in fact, strangers. So the best thing we need to do is raise a generation of gatekeepers, kids who understand the dangers because they’ve seen the stories. This story right here should be shared across dinner tables and Houston in Harris County today.
There’s no real technology or software you can place that protects your child. A child can get around most things. A predator can get around those things. The most engaging safety apparatus we have is talking to your child, getting their buy in on that safety, and making sure we’re utilizing safety techniques and steps throughout their online time.You want privacy? Get a diary, write whatever you want in it and slide it under your bed. They were very popular in the 80s.
You do not have an expectation of privacy, and we’re not going to allow you to run rampant in that space now. That conversation evolves over time. When you’re giving a child the first their first interaction with technology, there’s zero expectations of privacy. As your children get older, maybe they’re just texting their best friends. I’m not going to go in and read those texts, but I am going to monitor their overall online engagement as best I can. And certainly as they get older.
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