Riverside, CA, March 18, 2019: In 2020, over six billion people around the world will be connected by technology – a societal shift that drastically transforms every way of life. Unfortunately, this also includes crime, including the sexual exploitation of children. As technologies transform, child sexual exploitation becomes pandemic.
Technological connection breaks down all borders, and that brings some benefits with it. But world without borders for our teens is also a world without borders for pedophiles, predators, cartels, gangs and organized criminals. Researchers say that 87% of teens sleep with their phone. If care isn’t taken, this could give bad guys access to these children.
Keeping children safe is made difficult in a world with technologies like mass audience live streaming, encrypted chat rooms, block chain, cryptocurrencies and the dark net. A recent study indicates that 9000 children are blackmailed every day with illicit photos through mass audience social media.
Author, Opal S. Singleton explores how technology is used for these nefarious purposes within her new book “Societal Shift: A World without Borders and a Home without Walls”. Singleton is the President and CEO of Million Kids, and serves as the Training and Outreach Coordinator for the Riverside County (CA) Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force. She has trained more than 250,000 government and individual leaders about labor trafficking, child sex trafficking, sextortion, child pornography and social media exploitation.
This new book is based on real cases of technology being used used to create large-scale sextortion rings, international sex trafficking rings in local communities, and dark net child pornography rings that are subsidized when your child sends a naked photo or video to a predator taking advantage of them. An exhaustive look at a hot-button topic, Societal Shift could very well be the most important book you read this year, especially if you are a parent, educator, civic leader, first responder or young person.
This is the author’s second book. Prior to this, Singleton had authored “Seduced: The Grooming of America’s Teenagers.” She also hosts two weekly radio shows: “Exploited: Crimes and Technology”, broadcasted throughout Southern California by KTIE 590 AM, and “Exploited: Crimes against Humanity”, a weekly global internet human exploitation training program that broadcasts through Voice America Variety Channel.
You can contact Opal S. Singleton at (951) 323-0298, or send her mail at PO Box 7295, Riverside CA 92513. For more information on Million Kids, visit www.millionkids.org, or drop an email at info@millionkids.org.