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Photo of someone sitting in front of a computer monitor These are the most frequently asked questions we receive about cyberstalking and/or harassment.

We have more extensive information about cyberstalking and cyberharassment, as well as one-to-one help and a self-help interactive guide and tutorial.

How is cyberstalking different from child predators luring kids in cyberspace?

While online contact with children by child predators is often called “cyberstalking,” experts distinguish these crimes as cyberluring, since the intent is to meet the child in real life or get them to cooperate in sexually explicit online behavior. Conversely, the intent in a cyberstalking/harassment situation is to cause fear, punish or hurt the victim.

Cyberharassment can involve child predators. For example, posting a child’s personal contact information online as advertising for adult sex is a form of harassment. However, in the United States, this is now prosecuted as a federal child exploitation crime, if the child being targeted is under 16 years of age.

Follow this link for more information about this and the child and mother who inspired the law. Read Margaret’s story >>

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