Chilling warning to parents about online predators trying to target and exploit their children

‘If you’d seen what I’ve seen you would never let your children on the internet again’: Chilling warning to parents about online predators

  •  Officers employed with Queensland Police team Argos created a video
  • They pleaded with parents to be conscious of what their children share online
  • Other officers insisted parents need to take more care when they are posting too

A chilling warning has been issued to parents about the dangers of online predators in honour of Safer Internet Day.

Officers employed with Queensland Police team Argos – who work tirelessly against internet facilitated crimes – created a video pleading with parents to be conscious of what they and their children are sharing online.

They described the atrocious things they have seen in their line of work and detailed the importance of parents monitoring children’s devices. 

A chilling warning has been issued to parents about the dangers of online predators in honour of Safer Internet Day

Officers employed with Queensland Police team Argos created a video pleading with parents to be conscious of what they and their children are sharing online

Officers employed with Queensland Police team Argos created a video pleading with parents to be conscious of what they and their children are sharing online

One officer said: ‘If you’d seen what I’d seen you would never allow your child alone in their bedroom with an internet-capable device.’ 

Another said despite continued awareness and effort, an alarming amount of self-produced images and videos are still being seized.

‘I’ve worked at Argos since 2001,’ one officer said.

‘In the last 18 years I’ve seen everything from images and videos of young babies being sexually abused through to teenagers crying and distraught as they are sex-torted on web cameras.’

One officer said: 'If you'd seen what I'd seen you would never allow your child alone in their bedroom with an internet-capable device'

One officer said: ‘If you’d seen what I’d seen you would never allow your child alone in their bedroom with an internet-capable device’

Another said despite continued awareness and effort, an alarming amount of self-produced images and videos are still being seized

Another said despite continued awareness and effort, an alarming amount of self-produced images and videos are still being seized

Another officer said after the content he has seen, he would never ‘hand over a device to a child with blind trust and absolute ignorance’.

But other officers insisted parents need to take more care when they are posting, as well.

Despite concerted efforts to encourage children and teenagers to be smart online, some parents may be putting their children in harms way without even realising. 

‘Putting pictures up online of your children might be cute to you but it’s attractive to others,’ another officer said.

Despite concerted efforts to encourage children and teenagers to be smart online, some parents may be putting their children in harms way without even realising

Despite concerted efforts to encourage children and teenagers to be smart online, some parents may be putting their children in harms way without even realising



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