Thursday, April 2, 2026 10:51AM BRISTOL TWP., Pa. (WPVI) — The Bucks County sexual predator who preyed on a dozen women will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. Andrew Gallo was sentenced to 65 to 135 years in prison on Wednesday. The Bristol Township man drugged and raped a dozen women, including...Read More

Two years ago, the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, cited these disturbing statistics, “in 2019, one in three high school students and half of female students reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, an overall increase of 40% from 2009” (Office of the Surgeon General, 2021). Admittedly, although multiple factors are at play in...Read More

By Ethan Faverino | Senate Health and Human Services Committee Chair Carine Werner (R-LD4) will hold the final Department of Child Safety (DCS) oversight hearing of the legislative session on Monday, April 6, at 9 a.m. The hearing caps a months-long investigation into systemic failures that left vulnerable Arizona children unprotected despite repeated contacts with...Read More

It’s important that programs promoting safer sexting behaviours consider the specific needs of adolescents with behavioural problems, a new study by McGill University researchers suggests. Adolescents with behavioural problems engage in elevated levels of sexting compared with their peers without such problems. While this is the case both for male and female teens, the researchers...Read More

Bullying has been made easier and sometimes more serious by social media, gaming platforms, and other online communications technologies, affecting so many of our schools, families and communities. Research is also clear that cyberbullying – the online variant of school-based bullying – is linked to a host of negative emotional, psychological, physiological and behavioral outcomes....Read More

Meta has been ordered to pay $375m, around £279m, after a US jury found it misled families about the safety of its platforms for children. The landmark ruling, delivered in New Mexico, is being described as the first time a state has successfully sued the social media giant over child safety issues. For parents raising...Read More

Oftentimes, when lawmakers don’t know how to make sense of something, or it scares them, they criminalize it. Exhibit A: sexting. Sexting is very common among teens, frequently referenced in pop-culture, and perhaps a mystery to people who didn’t grow up with a cellphone. Some may call it “unwise.” Friends may steer friends away from...Read More

(TNS) — Today’s kids face bullying and other dangers in two worlds, one online and the other offline. “Parenting is parenting and digital spaces are just another place that kids hang out,” said Stephanie M. Reich, professor of education at UC Irvine. A new Southern California News Group analysis shows that 33.5 percent of California...Read More

On April 3rd, a temporary legal exemption allowing platforms to detect child sexual abuse material in Europe is set to expire — and the consequences could be significant. Thorn’s Head of Communications, Cassie Coccaro, sat down with Director of Policy Emily Slifer to break down what’s happening, why it matters beyond Europe, and what’s at...Read More

by Denise-Marie Ordway, The Journalist’s Resource May 31, 2018 Older teens are less likely than younger kids to think they’d get in trouble for sexting, new research finds. The study, to be published in a forthcoming issue of Computers in Human Behavior, also indicates boys are less likely than girls to believe sexting can have...Read More