shadylady wrote:10 year old boy is apparent target of child predators on YouTube
Notice that this story is framed in the most sensationalistic manner possible. Once you get into the story it turns out that they don't know anything about who actually was involved. It's far more likely that the "threats" were issued by teenagers pranking the boy than by "child pornographers" as suggested in the news story. This is typical of the way these kinds of stories are portrayed. The tendency is to write a headline and lead that exaggerates the threat level and then to provide very little to back up the initial claims. In fact, I'm willing to bet that it's quite possible that the people who talked the boy into posing nude were little girls as claimed to begin with and that later threats came from others who stumbled upon the video later on. This kind of melodrama makes a mountain out of a molehill and that would be harmless enough except that this gets turned into wasteful legislation and intervention that does more harm to the "victim" than the actual act that everyone is all in a huff about!
Typical BS that passes for news! Just a bunch of paranoia and hysteria! Oh, well, I'm sure it appeals to the typical airhead out there in TV land! It's funny that this was posted on a channel called MamaBearsCubs. Sounds like one of those people who over-estimate far-fetched threats. As for the video, it's funny that the detective seems to be doing his best to keep from laughing about the incident while the lady reporter seems to consider this some kind of grave and serious threat and that her efforts are of monumental importance. It's funny how people can be so dim-witted. But like ShadyLady says, it's all melodrama that is bound to attract an audience and that makes money and so that's why we see this kind of low-quality reporting fairly frequently. Ultimately, this boils down to a case of kids playing "You show me yours and I'll show you mine" but when the child safety advocates get involved it somehow becomes a case of "child predators" exploiting kids. My understanding is that 99% of supposed internet predators are just kids messing with other kids and trying to scare them or prank them in some way. The threat about "turning him into the FBI" is not a threat that an adult would make. It's clearly a case of kids playing around on the internet and pretending otherwise is counter-productive!