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Alicia's Law in Virginia- money that is going to locating child pornographers and rescuing their victims


Where are the Tracy 60?- looking for 60 child pornography trafficking suspects in Tracy, California

Thanks to the National Association to Protect Children for all you do!

Never Underestimate the Power of a Mother

Supreme Court Finds in Favor of FCC in Profanity Case

Porn Targets Kids

From Rebecca Hagelin in The Washington Times:

America is raising a generation of children on porn - and your child just might be one of them. According to the London School of Economics, nine out of 10 teens who go online will view pornography. The Kaiser Family Foundation reports that 70 percent of those who viewed porn stumbled across it - many while innocently doing their homework - and had not been looking for it.


She goes on to say that using a filter can help. She recommends Bsafe.com which costs $50 per year. This filter sends you an email regarding the websites that your computer visits.

Read the rest here.

Cell Phones-HELP!

What's a parent to do about cell phones? Filtering is not an application on cell phones. Is there ANYTHING a parent can do to? YES! There is some help. I just found a group that can help parents MONITOR their child's activity on cell phones. It's called MY MOBILE WATCHDOG.

Parents- Check out this device for your children's cell phone. You must have it! You can approve certain numbers that your children can talk to you. You can see the images that are texted to your child.

This tool enables parents to know who your child is talking to and texting. Don't worry about being your child's friend. They need a loving parent who educates them and protects them.

My Mobile Watchdog Blog
How does it work?
How much does it cost?

What are 5th graders doing?

Just another unfortunate story to validate the research that shows that the average age of the first pornographic exposure is 11 years old. For all you parents that have children about 11 years old, it is not too late to begin discussing the consequences viewing and sharing pornographic images. Please take the time, TODAY, to sit down with your children. Our children are being prosecuted as adults for distributing pornographic images on the computer and cell phones. Do you want your 11 year old child to be registered as a sex offender for the rest of their lives? Be a parent to your child and talk to them about the consequences of viewing this destructive, salacious material.

This news story also confirms, yet again, that filters do not work. Filters are not the answers to keeping pornography out of your child's hands.

Read the story.

This is happening way too often.

TV Turn Off Week

From the Parent's Television Council:

Next Week Is TV Turn-Off Week
Started in 1994, TV Turn-Off Week is a twice-yearly event during which people are urged to go without TV for a week. Recent Nielsen statistics show that on average, Americans today watch 4 hours of television per day -- and then spend another 4+ hours with computers, games, video, iPods and cell phones! Turning off the screen gives viewers time to think, read, create, connect with family and engage the community. It also offers the opportunity to assess the impact and re-think the role of television in our lives.

► For more information about TV Turn-Off Week, click here.
► For a list of 50 things to do instead of watching TV, click here.

Do you think your family could go without the TV for a week? What about video games, texting or computer games? Give it a try!

Action Item

Submit a form regarding harmful media to the FCC. The deadline is quickly approaching- this Thursday.

Go here for more information.

Powerful Video

A Local Story

This is a bizarre story. But when you are addicted to child pornography, your reality becomes distorted as in this case. It goes to show how far people will go to get their fix. I am so relieved the authorities didn't find any victims of sexual abuse at the school!!

The AP reports:

Sex offender who posed as boy gets 70.5 years
Youthful-looking man attempted to enroll in several Arizona schools

PRESCOTT, Ariz. - A youthful-looking sex offender who posed as a 12-year-old boy to enroll in several Arizona schools was sentenced to 70.5 years in prison Tuesday.

Neil Havens Rodreick II pleaded guilty last year to seven criminal charges. Most involved child pornography but two stemmed from the charade he pulled off for two years.

It continues. . .

Authorities didn't find any victims of sexual abuse at the schools Rodreick attended, but they found an extensive collection of child pornography at his home.

Rodreick originally faced 28 counts, but pleaded guilty to only a quarter of them: four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor stemming from the pornography, and one count each of failure to register as a sex offender, fraud and simple assault. The assault charge involved an allegation that he grabbed a girl's buttocks at a school in Prescott Valley with the intent to injure, insult or provoke.

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Raise your voice to defend medical professionals' choice to practice according to their beliefs

Contact the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (email address: proposedrescission@hhs.gov), or call the White House (202-456-1111) to express your concerns over Pres. Obama's proposal to rescind the conscience rule.

The conscience rule allows healthcare workers to refuse to perform services (like abortion) that conflict with their deeply-held, personal, religious beliefs. If this is rescinded, medical professionals could lose their jobs or could have their professional licenses revoked for refusing to perform these kinds of services.

As a society, we need medical professionals who have the courage to live according to their beliefs! We need their compassion, their integrity, their dignity, their medical skills, their experience, and their passion for their jobs! The liberties and freedoms championed by the United States of America should allow private citizens to perform their occupations according to their religious beliefs.
Public comment on this issue will be taken until April 9- . . . . . just a few more days for you to take the opportunity to let your voice be heard.


For more information look at these websites:http://www.usccb.org/conscienceprotection/
http://nchla.org/actiondisplay.asp?ID=271

Exploiting Children

Is there anything more horrific than exploiting an innocent child? Unfortunately, this has been a major problem in the travel industry. In an upcoming conference by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives(ACTE) who have partnered with ECPAT-USA this will problem will be discussed.

In the flyer distributed by ECPAT-USA it says:

“As the leading educator for the global business travel industry, ACTE has a responsibility to inform and educate travel management professionals about issues such as the sexual exploitation of children,” Susan Gurley, ACTE Executive Director, said. “Partnering with organizations like ECPAT allows us to offer conference attendees valuable information about what their companies and travellers can do to ensure they are not unknowingly contributing to this pernicious problem.”

“We are delighted to have this opportunity to partner with ACTE,” noted Carol Smolenski, Executive Director of ECPAT-USA. “We have a difficult subject to talk about, but we know that a lot of companies, like Carlson Companies and Accor, are taking the lead in preventing the sexual exploitation of children. Our job is to provide support and technical assistance and we’re happy to work with ACTE on spreading the word."

THANKS ECPAT-USA for protecting our children.

Obscene Movies at College Campuses

At 2 college campuses student groups were planning on showing pornographic movies. At the University of Maryland, Digital Playground who produced the movie Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge gave it to the student union for free thereby allowing the movie students fees to not finance it. Because lawmakers threatened to cut funding for the university, officials decided to cancel the screening of the movie. (Story here)




The UC Davis student group announced on their Facebook page their viewing of the hard-core pornographic film. Because this is not paid for by university funds, the UC Davis says they do not censor movies.

The reality is that both of these colleges are degrading women by showing pornographic films on campus. They are also endorsing pornography which we know is addictive and permanently alters the brain.

What are you going to do when your college shows a pornographic movie? It has already been shown at 5 other colleges without any problems. We must not let this obscene trend continue.