Our assignment this week was to read the book by Katherine Tarbox titled, A Girl's Life Online. It is a young woman's autobiography of an encounter that she had as a adolescent with pedophile online posing as a young man in his twenties( He was actually 41). This encounter ended up with the two of them meeting face to face in his motel room. As a result this was the first case of a pedophile interacting on the computer and meeting up with a minor to be prosecuted.
Tarbox goes in detail about her feelings of being along and feeling guilty with no real support from her family friends and even the professionals that worked the case. It is because of this case that we have many of the laws today.
This book should be read by all adolescent girls due to it's content and the lessons that are taught from a girl with first hand experience.
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