IN THE NEWS

10/23/2009
Reading Eagle

BCIU seminar focuses on safety issues for schoolchildren
By Mike Urban

While children may know to look out for predators on the playground or when walking home from school, many still don't understand that there are dangerous men searching the Internet for potential victims, state Attorney General Tom Corbett said Thursday.

So youngsters post personal information and photographs, inadvertently luring predators to them and putting themselves in peril, he said.

That's why it's important for teachers, law enforcement personnel, community leaders and especially parents to make children aware of those dangers, Corbett explained during "Keeping Kids Safe," a program at the Berks County Intermediate Unit.