Protect & Prevent - Why It Is Called "Digital Warfare"

Most people have heard the word “sextortion.”

Almost no one understands how radically, and dangerously, it has evolved.
Parents are still relying on advice from five, ten, even fifteen years ago… while predators have upgraded to AI‑driven tactics, global money‑transfer systems, geolocation tools, and industrial‑scale scam farms. The gap between what families think keeps kids safe and what’s actually happening online has never been wider.
Every single day, approximately 60,000 reports of potential child exploitation land at NCMEC. And roughly 84% of those cases trace back to criminals outside the United States. Many are criminals who will never face our laws, our courts, or our consequences.
Meanwhile, the numbers at home tell their own story: 1 out of 6 boys and 1 out of 7 girls have already sent a nude.
But of course, we tell ourselves: “not my kid.”
My book Digital Warfare: Our Kids on the Frontline exposes the truth most adults don’t want to face: that millions of criminals around the world now have direct, unfiltered access to our children. They can groom them, recruit them, manipulate them, and extort them and do it all from a phone in their pocket.
Kids believe it won’t happen to them.
Parents pray it won’t.
But hope is not a strategy.
We would never send our children into a physical warzone without training, protection, or a clear understanding of the enemy. Yet every day, we send them into a global digital battlefield of 5.5 billion people online, including cartels, organized crime groups, and AI‑powered predators without every talking to our kids and naming the threats.
This podcast pulls back the curtain.
It’s not about fear. It’s about clarity.
It’s about giving families the truth, the tools, and the language they need to protect the kids they love in a world that has changed faster than anyone expected.
Purchase the Kindle or paperback versions of the book on Amazon (search for Opal Singleton) or at https://MillionKids.org for the PDF and audio versions of the book.