Arizona Enacts Tougher Laws to Broaden Crackdown on Child Predators

Phoenix, Arizona – Arizona lawmakers have passed a groundbreaking law designed to strengthen the prosecution of child predators, marking a significant advancement in the state’s efforts to combat child exploitation and abuse. This new legislation, recently signed into effect by the governor, seeks to close loopholes that previously allowed some offenders to evade stringent legal consequences. The law introduces several key changes to the way child exploitation cases are handled in Arizona. One of the most pivotal shifts involves the expansion of the definition of child exploitation to include newer forms of digital abuse, a … Read more

Apple Executive’s Concerns Expose Facebook’s Breeding Ground for Child Predators, Lawsuit Alleges

New York – A newly unredacted complaint in a lawsuit against Meta, brought by New Mexico’s Attorney General in December, has revealed that an Apple executive informed Meta in 2020 that their 12-year-old child had been approached on Facebook. The lawsuit accuses Meta, formerly known as Facebook, of creating an environment that is conducive to child predators. The complaint, citing internal documents, highlights this incident as part of a longstanding concern about young users’ exposure to inappropriate content on the platform. It also alleges that at least one Meta employee raised worries internally that the … Read more