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For strong children: prevention against cyber grooming
Published on September 8, 2025
How can I recognize unpleasant situations on the Internet, what rules are there for safe chatting and where is there help?The children should get tips and support in primary school.
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Most of the time, the initiation of the chats with the children begins harmless, friendly, flattering.If the girls and boys then trust, there are huge dangers lurking at the cyber grooming.With an extensive campaign, the Rhineland-Palatinate primary schools are now being prepared to prepare the children against attacks by adults who start on the Internet and have sexual contacts with the goal.What happens in cyber grooming?When children and adolescents move on social media, chat there or exchange messages there, cyber grooming can meet them.The perpetrators chat under fake identity to make it clear without their intentions.Often they first sneak through compliments, small gifts and supposedly common interests.
How do the chats run off?Often starting with questions such as: "Do you want to play a game with me?"Then a kind of "truth or duty" is played.Often there are supposedly harmless questions like "Have you ever had a friend?".Is a first friendly band linked and trusted, follow intimate questions like "Do you already have pubic hair?"And explicit photos or videos are required.How should the children be helped?The Prevention Package of the Child Protection Association in cooperation with the State Criminal Police Office and the State Media Authority contains teaching material for primary school children in order to recognize such situations and thus to avoid.Rules for safe chatting and ways to get help should be explained to the girls and boys.
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What do the teachers and parents get?In addition to templates for school hours, the teachers should receive an overview of the legal foundations for protection concepts.The teachers are also offered further training.The Kinderschutzbund also organizes online parenting.According to the Ministry of Education, the first event is to take place on September 22nd.What do the police advise the parents?Parents should agree together with their children that private data such as the address and telephone number must never be communicated when using online services.Parents should sensitize the girls and boys to give people who pretend to be children or understanding interlocutors and proceed very sophisticated to hide their true age or true intentions.Children should be particularly careful when the chat partner: You want to curl in private chats that the contacts remain secret photos or videos demands news with sexual content does not send any "no" accepts personal data and wants to meet "offline" money or gifts is cyber grooming?Anyone who harassed children and adolescents on the Internet with sexual intentions must expect prison terms.The deeds are punished with prison terms of up to five years.
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