Myths around online abuse – short summary

People assume, mistakenly, that online predators tend to be old . In fact, many online abusers are not , and nor are they . Online abusers can come across as and ‘normal’. Children can be vulnerable to online abuse in their , when parents and carers are downstairs and don’t anything is wrong.  Not all children they are being abused, and others feel too to say anything. You cannot be sure that you would know if anything had happened to your child, unless they you.  People tend to think that abuse happens over an extended period of , when in actual fact, the between an abuser asking and a child can be as little as a few minutes.