Parents and guardians cannot receive reminders often enough about the urgent need to prepare kids for staying safe online. Local residents got an alarming one this week with news that Steven James Boose, 35, of Littlestown, Pa., had been arrested after allegedly traveling to Parkersburg to meet with a person he believed to have been a 14-year-old girl, with whom he’d been corresponding online.

Parkersburg Police met up with him, instead, and Boose has been charged with one count of soliciting a minor and six counts of use of obscene matter with intent to seduce a minor.

And the 14-year-old girl? Well, it turns out Boose had actually been exchanging messages with a Parkersburg Police detective.

Given the nature of the investigation that resulted in Boose’s arrest, it is understandable th

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