At least once a week, Det. Rich Wistocki or one of his officers sits down with a teen caught sexting and lays out a series of consequences.

A curfew, community service, mediation and maybe even a research paper on appropriate online behavior. The teen’s parents are included and must buy and install monitoring software for their teen’s cellphone and computer.

“That’s how children learn,” says Wistocki with the Naperville Illinois Police Department’s high technology crimes unit. “Swift and immediate consequences.” Read more…