Online enticement involves an individual communicating with someone believed to be a child via the internet with the intent to commit a sexual offense or abduction. This is a broad category of online exploitation in which a child is being groomed to take sexually explicit images and/or ultimately meet face-to-face with someone for sexual purposes, or to engage in a sexual conversation online or, in some instances, to sell/trade the child’s sexual images. This type of victimization takes place across every online platform – social media, messaging apps, game, etc. The goals of online enticement vary, but most commonly offenders seem to want to extort additional sexually explicit images from the child. Children and teens may not take the first steps in disclosing to an uncomfortable online interaction, so it’s important to understand the issue and how to talk about it. For more information, please visit https://www.missingkids.org/theissues/onlineenticement.