A campaign called “Say NO to Viral Challenges” began to be implemented in public and private educational institutions in the Cristóbal Rojas municipality (Charallave), Miranda state.
Leída Aponte, coordinator of the Victim Assistance Office of the Police Coordination Center in Cristóbal Rojas, specified that the campaign is to stop the physical and psychological violence of which children and adolescents who use social networks are being victims – without supervision of their parents – such as tik-tok, facebook, youtube, snapchat, among others.
He recalled the death of a child living in the Matalinda urbanization and other cases registered in the jurisdiction, where the victims are minors.
Aponte insisted on the alarm being turned on in the prevention and security organizations in the face of the viral challenge practices that the students are using.
He said that there are complaints at the police headquarters about this situation of virtual challenges, which are affecting physical and mental health, in addition to harming the entire psychological field, causing changes in behavior, cognition, emotions and personal aptitude of these children and adolescents. .
Recently, officials from the Victim Assistance Office of the Police Coordination Center of the Cristóbal Rojas municipality gave an orientation workshop to students from the Teresa de Bolívar UE and the Don Evencio Gámez Private School.
In the institutions they captured six children who were victims of viral challenge games.
Aponte asked parents, representatives and teachers for all the support to eradicate the aforementioned scourge that puts the lives of children and adolescents in the municipality at risk.