At any moment of the day or night, millions of children and teenagers are on line, exchanging e-mails and instant messages, surfing the World Wide Web and participating in chat rooms. Young people can get a lot of benefits from (36)________online, but they might also be in danger.
A little beep coming from the computer in her family’’s living room (37)________Jill Mentzer that an instant message had arrived for her 14-year-old daughter. She was (38)________ to see that it came from a 36-year-old man. "He asked if I would be (39)________ to have sex with older men for money. "
Ms. Mentzer told NBC News that she replied, (40)________ to be her daughter. "It just . went on for 10 minutes. He wanted to know some private things about my daughter," she said. "I just (41)________of played it along with him. That’’s when we called the Sheriff and someone was there in 20 minutes. "
The police wired Ms. Mentzer’’s daughter with a (42)________microphone and watched as she went to meet this man in a fast food restaurant. They arrested him for attempted molestation of a (43)________. Ms. Mentzer said (44)________________________.
While that particular predator has been caught, there are plenty of others like him still online. (45)________________________. They can go on line from personal computers at home, a friend’’s house, in school, a club or cafe. (46)________________________.