Corpus Christi Police Department

CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS - (News Release) The Corpus Christi Police Detectives, who are assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, seek to educate the youth about the dangers of internet safety and online communication. Today(Nov. 8th), they had the pleasure to speak to 300 students at a local Elementary.

There have been a rising increase in the nation's youth participating in online activities. The ICAC Task Forces across the United States are seeing a rise in reports of sextorism and self-generated sexually explicit material by children, from some younger than 8-years old. This material is also known as sexting, nudes or Child Sexual Abuse Material (child pornography).

It is important for parents to have open communication with their children about content sharing. With both boys and girls involved in sexting behaviors, parents need to have age appropriate conversations with their children, beginning as soon as they have access to any technological device. Conversations with youth should include these sentiments with a clear follow up explanation as to why it is so important to NOT SEND, NOT ask others and NOT share sexually explicit images or videos.