Online Grooming

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Online grooming is where someone befriends a child online and builds up their trust with the intention of exploiting them and causing them harm. Although online grooming is often linked to sexual exploitations, the groomers may have also have other motives such as financial or criminal exploitation.

The resources below may help you to identify if someone you know is being groomed as well as protecting young people against the potential dangers of online grooming.


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