This is a good time to review online safety with children now that they are home for another week or so.
Detective Inspector Jordan Whitesell with the OPP’s counter exploitation and missing persons unit and says since 2006 the provincial strategy has completed over 65,000 investigations and in a month there was 107 offenders that were charged.
Whiteshell says there are still another 175 investigations ongoing.
Cybertip.ca is a good resource for parents to know if their child is at risk online, and how to intervene.
(With files from Katie Nicholls)
