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Proposed additions to the Child abuse page.

Addition of subsection 2.4 labeled "Online abuse"

Online Child Abuse

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Online abuse is a unique form of child abuse due to its virtual and distanced nature. Such abuse need not happen face to face, nor does it necessarily require physical contact. However, online abuse occasionally results in negative face to face consequences, coming to fruition in the forms of statutory rape, forcible sexual assault, harassment, and more.[1] Online abuse of children can occur through a variety of forms such as cyberbullying, sexual abuse, grooming, and more. As is apparent by the name, such abuse requires the use of the web or phones, and from this gains its newfound importance in an increasingly technological world and unique nature. [2] In addition, the perpetrators of such online abuse may be a stranger or someone who is previously known by the victim.[2] A report by the Data & Society Research Institute and the Center for Innovative Public Health Research showed that 72% of U.S. internet users have witnessed some form of online harassment or abuse, while 47% have personally experienced it. This study found no distinction between genders with respect to harassment, but deduced that women were more at risk for a wider variety of online abuse.[3]

Governments across the globe have recognized the importance of recognizing and combating online abuse of children. Just in the U.S. there now exists the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program. This task force consists of 61 individual task forces engaging with 4,500 federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies all with the goal of combating online abuse of children. [4]

Cyberbullying

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Main article: Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying, or internet bullying, occurs when one individual or group distributes negative, false, or otherwise harmful content about an individual or group using personal and/or private information that causes humiliation or distress to that individual.[5] Cyberbullying can happen on any device that is able to connect to the internet (desktop, mobile devices, gaming devices, and more), meaning that it can occur on a daily basis and does not require the perpetrator to be with the victim.[5] [6] [7] Cyberbullying is especially prevalent among children because of its connection to school bullying where cyberbullying is simply an extension of bullying occurring inside of schools [8]. One Canadian research study found that children who were victims of cyberbullying and also bullied in school, were more likely to bully others over cyberspace [8].

Cyberbullying is prevalent in the modern era, with various studies showing the rising trend in online bullying although it remains the least perpetrated form of bullying.[9] Cyberbullying is relatively hidden so the extent to which it is perpetrated is under-reported.[9] The nature of cyberbullying causes victims to carry heavier burdens that other forms of bullying, like physical bullying, because victims often can't escape their bullies. Inability to evade their bully may lead a victim to harbor feelings of guilt, incompetence or despair.[10] Upwards of 37% of victims of cyberbullying do not report their abuse.[11] According to statistics of cyberbullying from the i-SAFE Foundation, more than 50% of adolescents and teenagers have been the victims of cyberbullying, where one-third of them have been threatened online.[12] A roughly equal number admit to having engaged in perpetrating cyberbullying themselves.[12] Of the victims that reported their abuse, 25% reported repeated cyberbullying. [13] The Harford County Examiner reported that far more than 50% of cyberbullying child victims report having hidden the issue from their parents when it had occurred.[13] The same examination reported that 1 in 10 youths had damaging photos taken of themselves without their permission, and that girls are more likely to be involved with cyberbullying than boys, both as bullies and as victims. .[13] Different social groups and ages tend to receive differing amounts of unwanted, negative, online feedback. For example, a reported 55.2% of young LGBTQ community members have been victims of cyberbullying.[14] Another trend shows that school-aged children are more likely to be victims of online abuse.[13]

A study in 2011 found that there are three primary reasons for why people target others over the internet. Those reasons are informal social control, dominance, and entertainment. [7] Informal social control is defined as pressure from one individual to another aimed at getting them to change their behavior. Dominance refers to the attempt(s) of hurting someone, humiliating someone, or gaining access to their personal information (secrets, explicit photos, etc.). And entertainment refers to what is commonly known as trolling.[7] Trolling refers to purposefully humiliating, annoying, or bothering someone for the purpose of eliciting an emotional response for the bully's enjoyment.[7] Those who do the trolling are called trolls. Trolls, however, are still cyberbullies due to trolling being a subset of cyberbullying. [7][15]

Cyberbullying is very common among children and young adults from 10-18 years old.[16] Victims of cyberbullying (also known as cyber victims) often feel negative about themselves after being bullied. It is also common for cyberbullying to have negative effects on cyber victims' social well-being, because it has a great impact on their self-esteem.[17] Another consequence of cyberbullying is that a cyber victim may fear for their own safety.[18] Further research conducted by the Patchin & Hinduja (2010) found that those involved with cyberbullying, as perpetrators, victims, or both, have significantly lower self-esteem than those who have little to no exposure to cyberbullying.[19] Kowalski & Limber (2013) also found that bullies and victims had the most negative scores on most measures of psychological health, physical, health, and academic performance.[20][21]

Parents are encouraged to monitor their children's online activity and deal with cyberbullying appropriately. If cyberbullying involves sexual content or involves sexting, however, the cyberbully and their parents can also get into legal trouble, to the extent of being registered as a sexual offender(s).[13] Cyberbullying that does not involve explicit sexual content can be more difficult to prosecute because there are no federal laws directly protecting children from direct forms of cyberbullying. [22] Cases of cyberbullying are difficult to pursue due to infringement on student's 1st Amendment rights, which causes controversies over what the schools can and cannot limit.[23] For a school to take action in incidents that occur outside of school, there must be either a clear 'disruption to the educational process' or a 'true' threat to one (or more) of the students.[23] For an expression to be considered a 'true' threat, the federal court must determine "whether a reasonable person would foresee that the statement would be interpreted by those to whom the maker communicates the statement as a serious expression of intent to harm or assault".[23] Whether or not public schools can limit their students' speech outside of school hours is becoming more and more relevant as cyberbullying increasingly gets recognized as a nation-wide issue.[23] [7] It took many high-profile cases of cyberbullying in order to get it attention in state and local legislature. Most states have implemented laws that ban any online communication that aims to cause humiliation, emotional distress, or fright.[24] Prosecution of cyberbullying cases are usually a combination of civil laws that best fit the nature of each individual case. [25] Most states have both anti-bullying laws and policies save for Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Hawaii, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, and Texas. Stopbullying.gov, a government agency tasked with preventing all and any forms of bullying, has created a detailed list of state laws and policies which can be found here.

Cyberbullying was specifically targeted in federal law by the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act introduced to the House of Representatives in 2009. [26] This failed prevention act sought to:

“Amend the federal criminal code to impose criminal penalties on anyone who transmits in interstate or foreign commerce a communication intended to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to another person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior.” [26]

This act was the result of the suicide of Megan Meier in 2006. Megan was the victim of cyberbullying by a mother and teen daughter duo, that resulted in Megan committing suicide in her own home in Missouri. [27]

Grooming

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Main article: Child grooming

Online grooming a phenomenon that can occur on- or off-line. The official definition of grooming used by the U.S. Department of Justice is :

a method used by offenders that involves building trust with a child and the adults around a child in an effort to gain access to and time alone with her/him. In extreme cases, offenders may use threats and physical force to sexually assault or abuse a child... The offender may assume a caring role, befriend the child or even exploit their position of trust and authority to groom the child and/or the child's family. These individuals intentionally build relationships with the adults around a child or seek out a child who is less supervised by adults in her/his life. This increases the likelihood that the offender's time with the child is welcomed and encouraged. [28]

Online grooming takes a special form. The above definition emphasizes the use of the child's family in building trust with the child. When grooming occurs online, however, this is frequently done without the knowledge or compliance of any adult, leaving even more room for potential abuse because of its unsupervised nature.

Online grooming itself can be driven by a variety of things. Most common is the use of online grooming to build a trusting relationship with a child in order to engage in either online or in-person sexual acts. The internet is used to lead a child to potential sexual behavior. Less commonly, grooming can be used for other forms of exploitation of the child, such as blackmail for monetary gain and more. Frequently, the two go hand in hand, with groomers convincing children to perform these sexual acts, such as the sending of nude photographs, and then blackmailing the victim by threatening to release information about them. [29]

Online grooming can occur in a variety of ways. Most commonly, chat rooms or social networks are used to make initial contact with possible victims. Groomers may also use photo sharing apps, dating apps, or online gaming sites to find their victims. [30] After establishing an online relationship, the groomer turns conversations to more personal matters, frequently sexual topics.[30] Groomers may then exchange sexual conversations with their victims, send nude photos or videos, encourage sexual acts on webcam, or persuade the victim to meet in person for sexual acts. [30] Note that groomers are not exclusively strangers. They can be family friends or individuals who have met the child before but use the internet in order to strengthen that relationship for future exploitation of the child. Groomers can also be an individual of any sex, gender, or age. Grooming is considered a complicated matter, and groomers may use many tactics. Groomers may use compliments or make promises to the child in order to elicit certain behaviors. Groomers may also assert control over this child to exploit natural sexual curiosity.[31]

Frequently, groomers make a fake profile in order to create a persona more likely to be trusted by their possible victims. Such a phenomenon is known as Catfishing. The official definition of a catfish is "a person who sets up a false personal profile on a social networking site for fraudulent or deceptive purposes."[32]Although catfishing is not exclusively used by online groomers, it is a common way in which groomers create both contact with their potential victim and build trust through a more trustworthy false identity. Catfishing itself is not illegal, but when used as a method for online grooming is considered as the crime of grooming.[33]

Grooming and overall online abuse of children is an issue of growing concern in the modern technological era. Victims of online grooming are frequently young teens, with the majority of victims being between the ages of 13 and 15.[31] In a 2012 literature review of research in the area conducted by various English scholarly institutions, it was found that 9% of internet users aged 10-17 reported unwanted online sexual solicitation or attempted grooming.[34]

In the United States, grooming is considered a federal offense. Several federal laws include sections involving grooming. Under section § 2422 of the United States Criminal Code,

(a) Whoever knowingly persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any individual to travel in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Territory or Possession of the United States, to engage in prostitution, or in any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. (b) Whoever, using the mail or any facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce, or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States knowingly persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any individual who has not attained the age of 18 years, to engage in prostitution or any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title and imprisoned not less than 10 years or for life." [35]

The U.S. Bar Association claims that this statute "targets the sexual grooming of minors as well as the actual sexual exploitation of them."[28]

Because of grooming's complex nature and the relationship of trust between the groomer and the victim, grooming in and of itself is infrequently left unrecognized. Only when the grooming results in sexual acts between an adult and a minor, the exchange of sexual images, or the extortion of money does it come to the eyes of a court. In the case of Shelly Chartier, the online grooming and resulting crimes were met with jail time. Chartier, through the use of catfishing both NBA star Chris Andersen and aspiring model Paris Dunn, groomed 17-year-old Dunn into exchanging nude photos and sexual acts under the false identity of Andersen. She then sent such images to Andersen who was under the impression that he was both receiving these from Dunn herself and that Dunn was not underage. Chartier then extorted money from Andersen, claiming she would reveal his possession of child pornography unless he paid her. Chartier was eventually caught and faced 18 months in prison for various crimes, including, but not limited to, extortion, impersonation, and making threats.[36]

Online grooming is not only combated by legislation. There are several non-governmental programs and initiatives aimed at the issue. For example, R.AGE, a Malaysian based group of journalists, aims to spread information about many important issues, including online safety and the occurrence of online grooming, in the hopes of "telling stories that matter, that make a difference, that hold people accountable, that give a voice to those who don't have one."[37] In addition, Pandora's Procect if a nonprofit organization that aims to provide support to the victims of crimes such as online grooming and assault. In addition, they spread information in order to prevent further assaults. [38]

Sexual abuse

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Main article: Sexual abuse

Online sexual abuse is a relatively modern trend, in which perpetrators abuse modern forms of technology such as live stream web cameras, cell phones, or social media to coerce targeted victims into inappropriate and sometimes illegal sex acts. [39] Abusers do not discriminate and target victims of every walk of life. Online sexual abuse differs from other forms of sexual abuse in that it can be perpetrated stealthily on a global scale, making it difficult for the offender to be caught. At the same time, technology offers predators greater opportunities to find the youth that they prey on.[40] While not exclusively, children are often the targets of online sexual predators who will often bully, emotionally manipulate, blackmail, or befriend willing communicators on the web in order to obtain their desires.[41] Online sexual abuse may vary from personal interactions between a victim and offender to a more mechanized process, in which children are sexually exploited, for the perpetrators' profit, over the internet.[42] Online sexual predators often target young victims, with a study showing that 13% of kids on the internet receive negative unwanted attention of a sexual nature.[43] Predators make contact with prospective targets in a variety of settings, although the most prolific place that predators troll is chatrooms, where 76% of first encounters with online sexual predators occur.[44] Predators troll chat rooms and other forms of social media like MySpace of Facebook in search of people who outwardly share personal information, a big attractant of online predators.[1]

Detection and deterrence of online sexual abuse are difficult because of the internet's anonymous nature; however, stopping and detecting an online predator's criminal activity is the task of various government organizations like the Federal Bureau of Investigation.The FBI's Violent Crimes Against Children Program was specifically created, "...to provide a rapid, proactive, and comprehensive counter to all threats of abuse and exploitation of children when those crimes fall under the jurisdiction of the FBI."[45] The FBI accomplishes quick response times by having agents scouring the internet in search of perpetrators; they ask for information in forums and chat-rooms and look for the telltale signs of abusive behavior in the children they interact with. Online sexual predators, however, are often hard to distinguish because they show a misleading representation of themselves to avoid incriminating evidence.[45] Rather than relying completely on authorities to apprehend the perpetrators of online sexual abuse, one may decrease the chances of unwanted and unsolicited advances from online predators by keeping one's intimately private details off of the internet.[1] Another way to avoid unwanted sexual solicitations is to ignore, block, and report an offender to the website's management staff, thus riding the inappropriate user indefinitely.[1]

A variety of laws are in place to deter online criminal activity pertaining to sexual abuse. The Federal Criminal Code and Rules outlines a variety of rules and regulations regarding sexual abuse under Title 18 of the United States Code. Section 1462 titled Importation or transportation of obscene matters, outlines what would be considered transporting obscene material over the internet. Child pornography violates this law, among others, because under this code, "Any obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy book, pamphlet, picture, motion-picture film, paper, letter, writing, print, or other matter of indecent character;" may be subject to fine or imprisonment of up to five years. [46] Online sexual offenders who target children may also fall under the jurisdiction of Section 2243 Sexual abuse of a minor or ward or Section 2251 Sexual exploitation of children under which they could be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. These sections are outlined as, "...aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, abusive sexual contact involving a minor or ward, or sex trafficking of children, or the production, possession, receipt, mailing, sale, distribution, shipment, or transportations of child pornography...not less than 30 years or for life [or can carry] any term years or for life."[46] As noted, any sexual abuse of children, whether online or in person, is subject to strict punishment by law. With that said, online sex abuse perpetrators often slip through​ the cracks, avoiding punishment with the use of their covert methods of taking advantage of unsuspecting victims.

Online abuse often manifests itself in physical and psychological harm to victims, as previously stated. In recent history, Larry Nassar, a USA Gymnastics team doctor was charged with 60 years in federal prison when he pleaded guilty to charges related to receiving child pornography, possessing child pornography, and destroying and concealing evidence relating to child pornography. Prosecutors have stated that a supremely close link between his child pornography activities had directly impacted his repeat, "molestation of children".[47] At the height of his child pornography obsession, Nassar had thousands of pictures of underage children.[47] In the wake of this scandal, affecting hundreds of women of a variety of ages, reforms have been made to further combat future occurrences of this abuse by USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University.[47] Also gathering a large following in the wake of this scandal is the Me Too movement. While changes are being made to confront sexual abuse, the children who've been abused by people like Nassar will always carry the physical scars and emotional toll of the abuse that they've endured.


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Hi Gabino.sanchez01, I have a few notes.

First, make sure that you avoid writing in an essay format as occasionally this comes across as a little too much like an academic paper. It would be a fine academic paper, but it's still a different style of writing than what Wikipedia prefers. Also be careful to avoid inserting phrases that could come across as an opinion or as otherwise non-neutral.

The next thing is that this needs to be summarized a little. There are already existing articles on these topics, so you won't need to rephrase material that's already in those articles and as such can focus specifically on how these topics apply to children and child abuse.

Finally, be very careful with sourcing. In general the sourcing you have in the article is good, but I'm not entirely certain that Bullying Statistics would meet the reliable sources guidelines on Wikipedia. It doesn't show any information about its editorial process or who writes the information. It's also published via WordPress, a self-publishing blog-type outlet. Basically, while the information in the blogs is probably not wrong, we can't guarantee that it isn't - or that it doesn't contain something that could be fairly harmful. Self-published sources are typically not usable on Wikipedia, which can be fairly strict about this.

Other than that, this looks good so far. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:50, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Shalor (Wiki Ed), the class needs to be proposing some of this on the article talk page. Wikipedia goes by WP:Summary style, and I see a lot of the above as overly detailed. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 02:09, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Furthermore, online abuse is not typically defined as child abuse. So I am concerned about WP:Undue weight in that regard. The sources need to be explicitly supporting the text. No WP:Synthesis. The editors should also generally be sticking to WP:MEDRS-compliant sources.
Pinging Mkfadani19, Kquigg, Gabino.sanchez01 and Cguzman25, who have worked on the draft so far. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 02:18, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for the insight Flyer22 Reborn - I hadn't really thought of online abuse not typically being defined as child abuse part. I'm really glad that you pointed that out.
All - make sure that the sourcing explicitly backs up the claims made in the article. On Wikipedia we can only summarize what has already been stated in reliable sources and can't synthesize conclusions - even if they seem obvious. This is seen as original research, which shouldn't be in an article. I do have a training module about editing on medicine, sociology, and psychology related topics; I think it could be helpful. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:08, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Shalor (Wiki Ed), I don't see that the class is listening. They obviously aren't engaging. Because of this, I'm certain that I'm going to have to make substantial cuts and likely move some material to other articles. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 19:57, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
user:Flyer22 Reborn We appreciate your concern. We have considered your comments and measured them against the wikipedia standards outlined in training modules and terms and conditions, and have found we are in compliance with those. We have edited any sources that you might deem too original or unsubstantiated, and have provided an explanation as to why this is an important contribution to the topic of child abuse. Furthermore, long ago I did place our proposal on the talk page and received no feedback from anyone, thus we proceeded. Best, Marlo Knapp-Fadani Mkfadani19 (talk) 20:04, 7 March 2018‎ (UTC)[reply]
  • Hi all, I have to share in the concerns with Flyer22 Reborn. At the very least the sections are fairly long and could be seen as containing information that is redundant to the existing articles on these topics, as a lot of this is already present in these articles. What you want to focus on is how online abuse and child abuse specifically intersect. I think that it would be a good idea to see what suggestions Flyer22 has for the draft. One of the things about posting on the talk page is that while it's definitely a good move, the lack of a response shouldn't always be seen as approval - a lot of it depends on the draft itself. I'll weigh back in a few minutes with some suggestions about the draft. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:13, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, Shalor (Wiki Ed).
Mkfadani19, you see how the Child abuse article names what the four types of child abuse are? That is what I mean by the material you all are looking to add to that article being WP:Undue weight. Your text is still too detailed for the article. I can state right now that the vast majority of the child grooming material is best suited for the Child grooming article and that I would not approve of that much child grooming material being added to the Child abuse article. Same goes for the Cyberbullying section. Also, depending on the sources and types of child grooming, it can be classified as child sexual abuse. Really, all child grooming needs is a paragraph or two under the Sexual abuse section. And, as you can see, there is already a section on Sexual abuse in the Child abuse article. That section is significantly smaller than the section you all have crafted; it uses WP:Summary style appropriately. Some of the sources you are using are about bullying, online predators, or other stuff, rather than child abuse. This is what I mean about not engaging in WP:Synthesis. Your sources need to explicitly tie these matters to child abuse. Yes, sexual predators fall under "sexual abuse," but your sources need to state "child abuse" or "child sexual abuse." And a number of sources you all are using are not WP:MEDRS-compliant. Furthermore, bullying, if solely psychological, falls under the psychological abuse aspect of child abuse. But again, the sources need to classify it as child abuse.
On a side note, remember to sign your posts using four tildes. I signed your username for you above. WP:Pings only work with a new signature. But since this page is on my watchlist, there's no need to ping me to it. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 20:42, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Turning the draft into an article called Online child abuse doesn't solve all of the issues. All it does is solve the issue of not having undue weight in the Child abuse article. It's still the case that all of this content can go in existing articles. Anyway, Shalor (Wiki Ed), I'll leave a message about this at the WP:Med talk page and see if they have anything to state. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 01:12, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please feel to make any edits to the work we have done. For our class, we aimed to include information on a raging epidemic related to violence against children, and if you do not believe that our information warrants its own page or that our material does not deserve to be a part of this database, then that is your opinion, and you may act on your opinion in whatever way you wish. The fact that there might be overlaps with other articles does not negate the fact that an individual may be looking for a one stop overview of the online threats to children nor does it negate that online abuse is a special problem in and of itself that should be recognized as such. In the same way that physical abuse and sexual abuse are different, abuses done online and those done in person are vastly different. My partners and I have done everything in our power to comply with the requirements of our class's assignment, wikipedia standards and rules, and to provide this very important information to the general public. We have provided this information with sincere thought, deep research, and the best of intentions of spreading knowledge of the specific form that abuse that occurs online can take. If you believe we are not up to par, then you are welcome to change what we have created to match your standards.We clearly either don't understand what you are asking us to do or disagree fundamentally on the topic. mkfadani19 01:35, 8 March 2018‎ (UTC)[reply]

I was aware of sources out there discussing online child abuse, but, if discussed at all, it's usually discussed within the topic of child abuse rather than being a source all on its own. Still, it's not a typical focus of child abuse sources. Googling it to see what is out there on it, I'm not convinced that it warrants its own article; this is because there are few sources out there specifically titled "online child abuse" or similar. There are a lot of cyberbullying sources out there, and cyberbullying sources are used for a lot of the text you all put together above. We already have a Cyberbullying article, though. And "online abuse" redirects to that article. There are also enough "online predator" sources available. I don't understand how you failed to grasp our concerns, since WP:Synthesis, for example, is very clear. But I'll see how this matter develops. I assume that your content will eventually be merged. I do appreciate you all trying to shine more light on online abuse. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 01:56, 8 March 2018 (UTC) Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 02:06, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
agree w/ Flyer22 Reborn...not convinced that it warrants its own article--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:55, 9 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for clarifying more, we will try our best to find literature that specifically characterizes online abuse as a type of child abuse and move from there. We appreciate you doing the due diligence with the content we're proposing. Cguzman25 (talk) 05:55, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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