One Child at a Time: Inside the Fight to Rescue Children from Online Predators

by Julian Sher

The Internet has helped make child abuse terrifyingly common - it is the new face of crime in the 21st century. This title goes behind the headlines to show how law officers are fighting back against this tide of abuse.

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Paperback

Published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[HZM · Rating 4 out of 5]

Difficult and grueling subject matter, this book gives a historic account of the flawed and jejune collaboration within law enforcement and its investigative shortcomings of hunting down child sexual predators, and thus enforced reformation thereof in the wake of the Internet. The book features a handful of international police operations and anonymized child abuse cases, and lays bare the unfair game of cat and mouse where child sexual predators play by no rules, whilst law enforcement is bound by legal, structural and technological impediments locally and internationally. Worth reading as a historic testament though it is not up-to-date, since the book was published in 2007/8.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Many times brutal but mostly interesting. It dragged on in moments and some of it could have been left out. It is good to know about the progress being made in online child exploitation but more can be done. The different agencies are doing the best they can.
It was interesting to hear about the different facets of tracking online predators and the various ways the different agencies are continuing to grow in their hunt for predators and cooperate for the greatest good of the children.
Worth the read but it is shocking to hear some of the things that children and teens are put through for the pleasure of online pedophile consumption. It's hard to fathom that peoples appetites for child exploitation is so voracious.

[Scott Harris · Rating 4 out of 5]

This Arthur Ellis True Crime Award winning book is deserving of its accolades. It offers in in-depth and very readable account of the efforts ongoing to prevent and intervene in child pornography and sex trade. Solid research with the police and into the profiles of specific offenders reveals the pervasiveness of the trade and the scope of work required to track down and rescue the children involved. Particularly compelling in this account is the humanization of the victims and the teasing out of the impacts in their lives.

[Shawna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extremely informative but heart wrenching. I think the public needs to be educated about these child abuse crimes solely because the people who commit them get away with it because they seem like "good" people. Those of us who are decent and humane would never imagine who the stereotypical pedophile could be: fathers, teachers, coaches, uncles, grandfathers, priests, mothers, and on and on. Imagine it!!!! You might be able to save a victim if you keep your eyes and ears open.

[Shelleyrae at Book'd Out · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very intense read but essential for parents of net savvy tweens/teens as well as anyone who works with them.

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it! The stories brought me to tears so many times.