With South African families confined to their homes over the last year or so, a growing portion of the day is being spent online. Days like today, Safer Internet Day, says Mayleen Bywater, senior product manager – Email & SMS, spokesperson at Vox, remind us that this is also the opportune time for sexual predators to take advantage of the increased time that children spend on social media networks, as well as the higher volumes of content that they tend to post.

A discomforting fact about sexual predators is that they historically work and hang...