Exposed: The Harrowing Story of a Mother's Undercover Work with the FBI to Save Children...
by R. Stephanie Good
Sales Rank: 647197
List Price: $24.99 $19.99 At Amazon
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Thomas Nelson April 3, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1595550623
ISBN-13: 978-1595550620
Product Dimensions:
9.3 x 6 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
Product Description
Think your child is safe surfing the Web? Think again, says R. Stephanie Good in this chilling expose and personal memoir about her efforts with the FBI to bust child sex predators. Posing as a young girl, Stephanie has helped the federal government catch everyone from common perverts to Fortune 1000 executives, even an executive from a children's cable television channel. Stephanie reveals the near-tragic personal story that compelled her into this harrowing career and takes readers on the hunt.
Customer Reviews & Comments An interesting read for anyone interested in the internet as a social phenomenon and wants to know what's going on out there. Ms. Good is to be commended for her dilligent work but I must say I wonder how much crime is actually being prevented. Don't get me wrong; these are absolutely not cases of entrapment. No one has been induced to commit the crimes they get charged with. They are plain and simple online looking for kids and young teens. So they get what they deserve. However, because they are very obvious about what they seek I wonder how many kids would ever agree to this. I would presume the average kid would cringe at the thought and stop talking to the predator. Maybe it's mostly the decoys like Ms. Good who continue the chats. The fact that these guys are pretty open about what they want makes them the easiest for kids to avoid and they probably do just that all the time. That's not to say there are not dangerous predators out there. Of course there are. But the really dangerous ones would be the ones who never bring up sex in internet chats and simply try to befriend the kid and try to arrange a meeting over some innocent common interest like music or video games--and if successful in getting to meet the kid, would groom and seduce--or worse--in person. That sort of individual will not fall into Ms. Good's (or Dateline NBC's) snare because with nothing malicious in the chat logs they don't have a case and don't persue in the first place. Those are the really dangerous ones and the decoy/sting technique doesn't do anything about them. Alas, I can't think of anything that would either. Just my two cents.
