According to the Office of Attorney General Gurbir Grewal (Gurbir Grewal), a statewide initiative aimed at addressing the surge in child predation in New Jersey, arrested 31 people in the three months to June.
United States Regional Working Group on Internet Crime Against Children Grewal’s office said that in the first six months of this year, they received 3,324 tips about potential online threats to children.This total includes data from National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
“This is 39% higher than the total number of 2,393 alerts for the entire year of 2019, and is expected to exceed the 6,130 alerts for the entire year of 2020, including the 10 months of the COVID pandemic,” Gruval’s office said on Wednesday.