"On the Media"
Brooke Gladstone talks to "Dateline" reporter
Chris Hansen and his source, FBI veteran
Ken Lanning, about the supposed 50,000 sexual predators online at any given time.
"That number had popped in the past," says Lanning. "In the early 1980s, this was the number that was most often used to estimate how many children were kidnapped or abducted by strangers every year. But the research that was done in the early 1990s found that somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 to 300 children every year were abducted in this manner." || More
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Earlier: AG uses "Dateline's" questionable online predators figure (LT)
