I lost my daughter to an on-line predator. My daughter is alive, somewhere, and everyday I live with the fear that I will get "the call". Every day I miss my daughter, every day I think about what she is doing, is she all right, is she eating, is she safe, every day I pray that she will call me just to say "I’m OK, I love you Dad, I’m coming home". My daughter met an older guy online when she was 14 and was convinced by him that she could not live without him, she fell in love and left home to be with him. You might think that our society, social organizations, police or government has ways to deal with this, provide help for parents, and offer ways to bring our children home, there is none. The sad truth is if our children leave home, no matter the circumstances nothing can be done to compel them to come home, unless they want to. In my case there is nothing I could do to bring my daughter home, I tried everything. My daughter has been completely brainwashed by “her boyfriend” of 18 and until she makes the decision to come home there is nothing that as her father I can do, there is no help. My mission is to spread the word, make parents aware that if it should happen to you, it is already too late to do anything. I recently read articles in the newspapers that a 12 year old girl had murdered her parents and brother because they had tried to interfere with her affair with a 23 year old man she had met in a chat room, another article where a 13 year old girl had committed suicide because of a web hoax, and another where a 13 year old girl who had met a guy on line was kidnapped, chained to a basement floor, beaten, sodomized, starved for over a year before she escaped, to be forever traumatized. Parents, these things are happening now and the common link to them is one thing, a computer. I did not want to make the hard decision and restrict or take my daughters computer privileges away. Every day I live with that decision. I am not going to tell you that life is easy, that enforcing your family rules and values is easy especially in this day and age, in a society that embraces everything that is advanced technology. The software IT Works has developed is a direct result of what has happened to me and my family, and I hope that our software will help you to avoid what we are living through. If you buy our parental control software thank you, if you chose not to, take control, the on / off button is right under your finger, turn off your child’s computer, let them sleep safely at night.   Parents, It is Time to Take Control!   Wayne Banks President, IT Works