Concerns over sexual predators lurking in online gaming venues are highlighted in a pair of reports.
USA Today interviewed investigators in Michigan and Arizona about the issue. Lt. Thomas Kish of the Michigan State Police told the paper:Child predators are migrating from traditional methods to alternate media. They are going to places where children are.
Meanwhile, Lt. Jessica Farnsworth, head of the Utah Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, said her unit has seized a number of Xbox systems during investigations. She credited Microsoft with providing training to law enforcement personnel on how to extract messages and other data from the consoles.
Philadelphia's
CBS-3 interviewed an investigator with the New Jersey State Police. Detective Cy Bleistine told the station:
We have kids growing up in computer age that are leaps and bounds ahead of the adults and as the parental controls come out, they find ways around them.
Last week
GamePolitics reported on the prosecution of an alleged predator who abducted a victim he
met through World of Warcraft.
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