New Effort To Protect Kids From Online Predators

The number of cases involving child pornography and child predators is rising in North Texas.

The U.S. Attorney's Office is not only prosecuting these cases, but now training educators how to help children protect themselves from online predators.

Darlene Ellison says she received a rude awakening three years ago. "When it comes to protecting our kids, I thought I was protecting them," she said. "I wasn't doing enough."

Her ex-husband, Phillip Todd Calvin was arrested after being caught in an undercover FBI child pornography sting. Calvin was known as the singing dentist in the Lakewood Neighborhood of Dallas.

"He was traveling to Mexico to engage in sex with minor boys," Ellison said. "I was stunned, humiliated, shocked."

Ellison says she regularly warned her children about strangers. "Never imagining in a million years that that somebody was very well educated; he was a dentist, very community oriented, a super volunteer, and he was living in our home." ...full story