Summary

Senate Health, Education Labor & Pensions Subcommittee on Children and Families holds a hearing on keeping children and families safe from Internet predators. Teresa Strickland whose 15-year-old daughter was abducted and sexually assaulted by someone she met in an Internet chat room says the Internet is a ``pedophile's playhouse.''

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 250458
Story Slug CHILD INTERNET PROTECTION (2000)
Location WASHINGTON, DC
Format TVD
Date 3/28/2000
Archive Time 12:37
TRT 3:13
Supers 1) Senator Judd Gregg / (R-NH) 2) Senator Chris Dodd / (D-CN) 3) Tim Remsburg / Witness NH 4) Teresa Strickland / Witness
Video Description SENATE HEARING WITH CUTS
Description Senate Health, Education Labor & Pensions Subcommittee on Children and Families holds a hearing on keeping children and families safe from Internet predators. Teresa Strickland whose 15-year-old daughter was abducted and sexually assaulted by someone she met in an Internet chat room says the Internet is a ``pedophile's playhouse.''
Script (SUGGESTED TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO) 00:00 And it is our obligation to pursue those individuals to catch them and to prosecute them. And that means we need to look at. But 00:10 there's also a dark side to the internet. And that's why we've gathered here today. And we should not let our exuberance for this new technology blind us to the dangers that exist out there. This is particularly true when it comes to our children. Today's kids may be technically savvy, but they're still children. They may understand computers, but they are years away from understanding the harsh realities of an adult world that can be very cruel. parents used to believe in fact, many still do that their children are safe, when the doors to their house were locked and the kids were in their bedrooms. But no more Those days are over with. In 1998, nearly 500 adults were convicted of internet related Child Exploitation offenses in federal courts. And the danger is increasing as more and more children and more and more criminals gain access to the internet. How can we allow our children to reap the great benefits the incredible benefits of the World Wide Web without exposing them to its dangers 01:13 as the young man who murdered our daughter had created several websites and our daughter's name and the these things anger me because of the murder, but because of the lack of responsibility on these companies to take to have any responsibility in this. Doc you search.com For one was the one who sold the killer. Amy's social security number for $45. 01:43 Our daughter didn't come home from school. At first we were we just thought that she had lost track of time. And we were lighter to learn fit her. She and her friend were taken from us by someone that Diana had met over the internet. I thought she was supervised. If I'm in the kitchen cooking 15 feet from her and she's in the kitchen is all open. We also learned later that he was a collector and a distributor of child pornography. The Internet is a pedophiles perhaps, and we need to do something about it. But there are others out there taking his place. And we need to do something about we need to do something about it as parents, as internet providers is FBI. Prosecutors legislation we all need to do something about it. These cases from what I understand are hard to prosecute when a new laws so that they're not hard to prosecute, 03:01 much of what we're hearing about is such a good news bad news situation that this obvious explosion of Taylor's life was worth 03:09 the same as all of this devastating as the site that was against our daughter
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