Stopping Sexual Predators - True Story

Today, I was told a story about a man who took his two daughters, aged 8 and 10, to a mall in Chicago recently. 


As he was shopping with them he witnessed an older man on an escalator, holding a cellphone underneath the skirt of a young girl standing above him on the escalator. As "Jim" saw this, he shouted at the perp, but he was about 100 yards away in a really busy mall. He went to the escalator and tried to find the man, but by the time he reached the next level the perp was gone and was no where to be found. 


Jim just learned about SOS LINK this past Thursday and said that he could have used SOS LINK to take photos of the man (with the GPS location, plus a time and date stamp to provide to authorities) and have him identified. Because photos taken with SOS LINK are sent through a secure server, they cannot be tampered with (eg. photoshop) and can be used as evidence in a court of law. 


This is a true story. And it's happened before -- a "Man caught taking photos under girl's skirt". 


The sad reality is that technology continues to be used to abuse - but the good news is that we can also use the same technology to catch those in the act and stop them.