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Law enforcement has been diligently looking for predators on English-language websites, but until now, Spanish-language websites have escaped attention. The Daytona Beach News Journal Online reports that, “cyber-crime investigators are beginning to monitor chat rooms on Spanish-language sites such as Yahoo en Español, AOL Latino, MySpace en Español and Univision.com.” Authorities believe that the number of children who use the Spanish-language sites is small, because those children are using sites that their English-speaking friends are using. The article also says, “according to U.S. Census data, nearly 13 percent of Hispanic children in the U.S. ages 3 to 17 have Internet access at home. The data is not broken down by language. About 56 percent of Hispanics use the Internet, according to Pew Hispanic Center data.” Authorities are also educating parents about this threat, since many parents work long hours, and some children have several hours of unsupervised time.

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