What's grooming?

1. Grooming
Veronica Falcón
Martín Correa
Maria Munita
Mauricio Marchant

2. What is Grooming?
 Grooming is the act of luring someone for sexual
benefits, or favors.

3. How do they do it?
 They start building emotional connections with the
victim, and gain their trust for sexual porpuses

4. Signs of Grooming
 Be very secretive, including about what they are doing
online
 Have older boyfriends or girlfriends
 Go to unusual places to meet friends
 Have new things such as clothes or mobile phones that
they can’t or won’t explain
 Have access to drugs or alcohol

5. Consequences
 Here in Chile if you commit this
crime you can go to prison/jail (5
to 15 years in prison)

6. How can we prevent it?
 Help them understand who they should or
should not be contacting.
 Teach your child that people aren’t
always honest when online.
 Try not to be overly strict.
 Show your child that he can trust you to tell
you everything.

7. How to be safe on Internet?
 Don't meet people online that you don't know in
person
 Have control of how much time do you spend in the
phone
 Be careful with your personal pictures
 Administrate right privacy on social media
 Identify fake links and don't open them

8. How to be safe on Internet?
 We as teachers, parents or uncles give the trust to
children for them to tell us everything about what they
do on internet
 Identify signs of cyberbullying, grooming or sexting and
report it immediately
 Give information to parents about the dangers of
internet (cyberbullying, grooming, sexting)
 Create laws to administrate better the use of social
media
 Technology education at schools and works