News by Charles Miranda
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Subscriber only An 11-year-old boy was rescued by police in Austria last week, a couple of months earlier it was a five-year-old in Barcelona and before then, several children and a baby from an orphanage in Malaysia. But the Australian police unit whose investigations led to these offshore rescues say the most at risk of child abuse are right here in Australia, with multiple current undercover operations identifying an alarming rise in predators targeting our kids. And most of those children being groomed or abused are not necessarily from vulnerable homes and circumstances but rather middle class homes and right under the noses of their parents with one in four children online now talking to a stranger.