Ryan Montgomery
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What does that number end up being in the future?
Especially if
These victims, you know, not all of them, but a large number of them re-offend in their lifetime.
What happens in the next generation?
Is it going to be one in two girls and one in ten boys?
And where does this end?
So I pray that this ends and parents actually open up and they realize that these devices, like you hand your kid a phone, an iPad, a computer, a gaming console, because, you know, it's almost like a babysitter to them.
When I was a child, which was only 20-something years ago,
My mom gave me a prepaid phone that I had to top up with minutes, and I'm sure people can relate to that.
If she said, give me that phone, I wouldn't have cared.
But these kids, that's their connection to the world.
That's like cutting off one of their hands.
These phones are their connection to people.
And if they're scared to come to you about something like what I just showed you, or somebody that's extorting them or grooming them, or they don't know what grooming is and they can't
They can't determine that they're being groomed.
Having these conversations with your kids and knowing that they're going to come to you if something like this happens, even if it is embarrassing to them, could potentially save their life.
And that's why I'm doing what I'm doing.
I'm not doing it because I enjoy looking at children cutting their wrists.
Yeah, the internet's wild.
So one thing, going back to Roblox, is they banned vigilantes on their platform, Schlepp being one of them.