The iShine Student Center in Temecula welcomed Opal Singleton, president and CEO of Million Kids, Training and Outreach Coordinator for the Riverside County Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force for presentations to staff and parents about cyber and human trafficking. She works with the FBI, Homeland Security Department, and the Riverside Sheriff’s Office, and has been featured on CNN, Good Morning America, and The O’Reilly Factor. She is also the author of Seduced: the Grooming of America’s Teenagers.
Sue Miller Hurst, iShine’s director, found the material about the grooming of children for sex trafficking through their internet and phone conversations “shocking,” and wanted all parents to hear Opal’s message. Sue said, “This grooming ends badly for many child victims and Riverside County is one of the most dangerous in the country. Recruiting is happening in schools. Games that appear innocent are being used to entrap kids of all ages who have a phone and do not recognize that this connects them to pedophiles, pimps, gangs and other criminals.”
