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Keeping your family safe online

Online predators are everywhere and they're after our kids. There are 500,000 online predators active each day — according to the Child Crime Prevention and Safety Center.

We are working for you on ways to keep our kids and our families safe. This page is designed to help give you some tools to protect your family. There are education strategies, apps to monitor what your kids are saying and doing online and much more.

The way children are learning about being safe online is also changing drastically, thanks to a local organization.

Here you will also find the real-life stories of the survivors of cyber predators and how some are using their experiences to prevent something from happening again.

Jenna Zibton is exploring the topic for Solutionaries during the month of February, giving you solutions to a problem that’s not going away anytime soon. You can email her at jzibton@wsls.com

13-year-old dies from overdose after trying the TikTok ‘Benadryl Challenge'

13-year-old dies from overdose after trying the TikTok ‘Benadryl Challenge'

Read full article: 13-year-old dies from overdose after trying the TikTok ‘Benadryl Challenge'

Justin Stevens is experiencing a parent’s worst nightmare after a TikTok challenge claimed the life of his 13-year-old son, our sister station WKMG reports. The family says their son, Jacob Stevens, passed away from an overdose after attempting the “Benadryl Challenge,” which encourages users to take 12 to 14 pills to create a hallucination.

One family is working to fight them with education. We’re working for you on the solutions that could be in every Virginia school system.

‘Evil in the world’: Woman taken by online predator as a teen, now educating others

Read full article: ‘Evil in the world’: Woman taken by online predator as a teen, now educating others

We are working for you on solutions to keep our kids and our families safe from online predators.Online predators -- they are everywhere, and they are after our kids. But one family is working to fight them with education.

Authorities say a female student got a Snapchat message that said: “You’re on the CAMS hit list, good luck you’re the first one”

Authorities investigating threat made toward student at Central Academy Middle School in Fincastle

Read full article: Authorities investigating threat made toward student at Central Academy Middle School in Fincastle

The Botetourt County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a student from Central Academy Middle School (CAMS) in Fincastle received a threat on Snapchat on Tuesday.