Saturday, 6 January 2007

Power of the Internet

A child in Canada found itself in a sexually abusive situation, and wanted to contact a child helpline. She entered the phrase "child helpline" into Google, and was presented with an email address. Unfortunately, her message ended up in Australia.

The Australian agency immediately forwarded it to police, who managed to trace the location of the computer and the child in Canada. Canadian law enforcement took immediate action and removed the youngster from the harmful environment.

Seems we're all a global community after all.



6 comments:

  1. wow....now I'm so glad to hear that! :o)
    Lisa

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  2. That is wonderful ....love Jan xx

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  3. Now that is truly amazing!  I'm so glad that she had the courage to reach out at all.
    Lori
    http://journals.aol.com/helmswondermom/DustyPages

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  4. Wow!  Good for that child to have the courage to ask for help!
    Pam

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  5.  Great story.

                    Julie

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  6. Wow.  Amazing. Thanks for sharing the story.

    Hugs,
    Gina

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