Predators increasingly use social media, gaming platforms, and encrypted messaging apps to groom victims, a trend that accelerated significantly over the last several years [3, 5]. The Legal Framework: Operation Cross Country
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Many victims are "groomed" over time by someone they know, or even by family members, through emotional manipulation rather than physical abduction [1, 4]. It only happens in "bad" neighborhoods or big cities. Predators increasingly use social media
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