Online Predators

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People who use the internet to prey on children on the target of new advertising champion lunched today. Our interactive online reporter Teresa Lalone has that story.


There’s no end of the social connections teenagers can make online, some get requests from strangers.

“Crumby people.”

“Yell, like sometimes run the digital add me, I’m like who the hell are you kind of thing.”

“I try to block them and delete them.”

“When a stranger says hi or something, I exit and block the person.”

So these kids are getting the message they know to turndown strangers online. Now a message’s being send to predators in an ad champion. The children of the streets society is launching the ad. The BC government is paying with support from the Vancouver Police.

“If you go online and connected with the young person underage, there’re police officers online as well.”

Now keep in mind today’s information is nothing new in terms of what police are doing. They’re still doing the same amount of investigation. What they want get out though is that predators are being watched.

Vancouver police have two full time officers possess the teenagers online trolling the net potential predators. Another six officers are brought in to investigate the active file. So far the success rate is low. This unit investigated 20 cases, 7 people were charged, but 4 were thrown out due to lack of evidence. “These are not easy investigations, they’re very complex and take a lot of time.”

SGT CAVEZZA says online predators investigations are a top priority for the department. He hopes the ads persuade the potential predators to stay out of teen chat rooms and off facebook sites.