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In Depth
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

DO YOU
KNOW
WHO YOUR

CHILD IS

TALKING TO

ONLINE?

What you can
do make your
kids aware of
online predators
BY MICHELLE KIM

In many ways, the heart
wrenching case of Conyers
teen Savannah Gattis looks
like a parent’s worst fear
come true.
At the outset, it seemed that
the 19-year-old Heritage
High School student was
lured away by an unknown
male who promised a world
of fashion modeling opportunities and communicated
to her through a phone her
parents didn’t know she had.
The case is still under investigation, but it’s brought to
light the sometimes overwhelming world or technologically aided social comREAD MORE