He’s a convicted child molester.
A man 45 years older than your child could get inside your home through your child's computer.
A national study by the American Psychological Association says 95% of internet predators don't even try to pretend to be younger.
So how does a child molester get to children?
In a Solving Problems investigation Fox 23’s Abbie Alford spoke exclusively with a convicted internet molester and why every parent and teen needs to watch to keep the next molester away from your computer.
Social networking sites can offer a fertile field for molesters and for parents that’s a scary thought.
So how do you protect your kids from a child molester? What if you knew what a child molester was thinking? What does he say to your child? What tricks does he use?
We went inside the mind of a convicted child molester. What we found is shocking. He thinks he did nothing wrong.
Meet “Jim”-a child molester serving 30 years in prison for crimes that started on Myspace.
"I would send friend requests to females. I would search for ages 18-26. I sent out friend requests," says “Jim”.
And one of those friend requests was a girl who “Jim” says posted her age as 19-years-old.
"She sent me a message that says, 'I will be friends with you if you talk dirty to me.' I thought ‘wow, I've never had an approach like that before,’" says “Jim”.
However, the girl was really 15-years-old.
Days, weeks turned into months of online messages, texts and an explicit video sent via e-mail.
“Jim” says eventually they had sex.
It’s the recipe for almost any Internet molester’s fantasy but every parent’s nightmare.
"I fell in love with her and she said that she loved me too. I asked her to marry me," says “Jim”. “We talked about getting married as soon as school was out this May [2008] because she told me she was still in high school. She told me that she was held back. She was a very smooth liar."
This wasn’t “Jim’s” first run-in with an underage girl online. In another case a watchful parent stopped the trouble before it started.
