One of Jeffrey Epstein’s assault survivors, Teresa Helm, in her role as an advocate for survivors of sexual assault and sex trafficking, educates people about tactics traffickers use to groom victims. She said that, having taken advantage of the pandemic, the internet has become the number one channel predators use to coerce children into the sex trade. “It is happening more so online than anywhere, currently, and it has hugely increased since COVID,” Helm told host of American Thought Leaders Jan Jekielek in a Feb. 14 interview. “Children are spending at minimum 50 percent more time online, which then gives predators even that much more time to be a predator and to target children.” “The social isolation, the mental health challenges that our children are facing because of the pandemic, everything is compounding these layers, that is increasing the vulnerability for our children online,” she said. According to the U.S. State …
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