Having your teenage child solicited to pose provocatively is something no parent hopes for, and with technology so accessible and millions of people on Facebook, such risque sites are finding more ways to access teens and children.
Amber Wallenstein is just like any other 14 year-old girl. She 'basically' lives on Facebook, and has hopes of one day becoming a model, she said. “It's every girls dream.”
Through a Facebook friend request by a modeling company, Empiric Endeavors, the teenager thought her dreams were about to come true.
“They contacted me and three of my friends," Wallenstein said. "They told us they'd pay for us to go to New York, Colorado, Florida.”
But mom Nancy Huck wasn't convinced.
“She said they're going to pay us $100 an hour," said Huck, "Right there, my red flag went up. I said top models don't make $100 an hour. They get paid by the shoot. It doesn't sound right.”
Huck wasn't about to let her daughter agree to the modeling.
“[Empiric Endeavors] said at first just bathing suits," said Wallenstein. "Then, he said bathing suits and lingerie and I said I'm not wearing lingerie.”
It was then that Huck checked out a website she said Empiric Endeavors told them the girls would be on. “I got online. It said these girls were 13 to 17,” she said.
Over the phone, Chris with Empiric Endeavors said it's true he asks teenage girls to model in lingerie for him, but he doesn't see it as a problem.
“There are definitely perverts out there that are trying to get a girl naked but there are also photographers out there that are just trying to get good pictures regardless the age of the model,” he said.
Scared for her daughter's safety, Huck says she's learned to be more cautious so such a close call doesn't happen again.
And she wants to warn other parents before it's too late for their teen girls.
Editor's note: This article incorrectly named the website TrueTeenBabes.com as an affiliate of Empiric Endeavors (according to a representative of that company). This information was not corroborated by TrueTeenBabes.com and mentions of that company, and any possible involvement, have been omitted from the article.
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