Pediatria pre prax 2/2016

The strategies of child manipulation in online environments with a focus on cyber grooming

Cyber grooming (child grooming, grooming) represents the Internet users’ behaviour (predators, cyber groomers) which is supposed to raise false confidence and make victim come to a secret personal meeting. The sexual abuse of the victim, physical violence or child prostitution and pornography abuse might be the results of this rendezvous which means that cyber grooming is a kind of psychological manipulation carried out through the internet, mobile phones and other relevant technologies. The paper also focuses on examples of manipulation connected with attacks to children. The last part of paper describes featured cases of cybergrooming.

Keywords: kybergrooming, child abuse, cybercrime, webcam trolling