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Suspect convicted sex offender emailing my granddaughter. Mother doesn't believe me. Who do I contact?
I think my granddaughter is corresponding via email and phone with a person who is a "registered" sex offender. My daughter suspects this also. She has accessed my granddaughter's computer and phone calls she has received on her cell phone; but, when she confronted her daughter about this, she reported she was talking to a girl from Council Bluffs, Iowa. My granddaughter is 14 and has no close friends. She spends at least eight hours a day on an unsupervised computer, and has 24-hour access to a cell phone.
Someone please tell me an agency to contact to protect my granddaughter.
I agree. My granddaughter has too many hours and easy access to her computer and cell phone; but, I don't have authority to make the rules for her.
This is my granddaughter, and I am afraid for her safety, even if her parents don't seem concerned. Local police do not take a grandparent's suspicions seriously, I am not the subscriber to the provider of her internet service, nor do I pay her cell phone bills.
Thanks to everyone who has answered; but, apparently, there are no agencies I can approach.
My advice to my daughter to contact the police, remove the computer from my granddaughter's room, search her cell phone records, and confiscate her cell phone have fallen on deaf ears.
When her daughter is picked up on the way home from school someday, raped, goes missing, or is found murdered, my saying "I told you so" will be no consolation to me.
12 Answers
- elaeblueLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
See if you can find out the e-mail address or user name for this person and warn them off. Tell them that you will contact the police if they speak to her again. Call your local police dept and give them the telephone number they can check him out for you.
If necessary maybe one of the police officers would call and ask about it -making your threats seem very real to him. If not get someone to pretend to be the police and call him.
Have a long talk with the girl and make sure she knows the scary side of this and not to go and meet him anywhere. She is old enough to scare her into complying with the rule of no contact with him.
- 1 decade ago
Your local police dept would be a good start. She is 14 and if that is in fact who she is communicating with she isnt going to tell anyone for fear of getting into trouble. I would also limit her access to the computer and check the cell bill when it comes in if its not prepaid.If she is using a prepaid cell then I wouldnt provide her with the money for more min until this issue has been resolved.
- TaraLv 51 decade ago
Contact the cell phone company for phone records and track the phone number to this person than you can find out who the person is and if in fact this person is a sex offender call your local police Department
- Anonymous5 years ago
One of the funniest was this man who was about 60, he looked like a homeless person but actually had a place to live. He obviously had some mental issues (but I'm not making fun of that). He walked all around and looked perfectly happy. I saw him in a Friendly's ice cream parlor one day sitting at the counter. He was eating an ice cream cone, had it all over his face, moustache, beard, and it just looked so cute because he didn't care, he was just lovin' it!
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- 1 decade ago
Why would anyone let their children spend 8 hours per day on a computer. Your Granddaughter should know better and your daughter should take away her phone and computer, thats how you protect your granddaughter.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I would contact the police & that way you have something on file if something happens to her. Go first thing in the moring. they should be able to do something. maybe even tap her line.
- teriLv 41 decade ago
Number 1..report the jerk and show the proof
2 cut off the kids communication...to the perp
hey whos in charge? you are so go ahead and take charge...you and the mom...
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Tell her to stop talking to the sex offender. She really shouldn't be talking to any strangers.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
tell the police what you just told us and let them handle it from there
