After an emotional first season, 'Undercover Underage' is again for a 2nd season. Check out the jaw-dropping Season 2 trailer beneath.
(*2*)Activist Roo Powell is dedicated to creating the digital world a safer position for children. The founder of Safe from Online Sex Abuse (SOSA) has been running tirelessly to combat on-line predators for 4 years, and thanks to Investigation Discovery, we will be able to see what is concerned on this pursuit.
In November 2021, Undercover Underage premiered on ID with six episodes that invited viewers into the heads of abusers and groomers who use the internet to prey on children.
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Picking up where To Catch a Predator left off over 15 years ago, Undercover Underage involves a crew of people from SOSA running along native police to deliver sexual predators to justice. On May 1, the docuseries returns for another installment, and Distractify has an unique first look at the Season 2 trailer.
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Season 2 of 'Undercover Underage' finds the SOSA staff in Oklahoma. Check out the trailer below.
"Sex abuse online is a growing concern," says Powell within the Season 2 trailer. "Our goal is the prevention and intervention of the sex abuse of children in all its forms." Season 2 of Undercover Underage is in Canadian County, Okla., the place they are working in tandem with their sheriff's workplace. While there, they plan on launching a decoy dash.
As Powell explains within the trailer, a decoy sprint is when SOSA "[puts] decoys online, these fake teenage profiles, in order to find what we call ACMs — adults contacting minors -— whose goal is to abuse children and teenagers."
In the trailer we see an actress posing as an adolescent, video chatting with more than a few ACMs who're attractive in inappropriate flirtatious conversation with someone they consider is a 12-year-old lady. Sadly, it's this young lady's activity to proceed to speak with these men to expectantly get additional info.
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The show goes way past the phone calls and video chats. Viewers are also aware of suspects in truth being apprehended via police as they are trying to meet up with the actors who are posing as underage kids. In the trailer, audiences be informed that one suspect has been "sexually abusing his 12-year-old stepdaughter for four years," says Powell to any other member of her staff.
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How does the SOSA workforce get the task achieved?
"Roo and the team at SOSA continue to carefully craft back stories, social media profiles and photos to help the fictitious decoys transform into teens and tweens and together they work to engage with the alleged online predators to identify them for law enforcement," mentioned Investigation Discovery in a press liberate forward of Season 2.
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Once the ACMs have reached out to the decoys, the SOSA team works diligently to obtain information about these men. Using "texts, calls and even distressing video chats," they do what it takes to convey these predators to justice. Every person who initiates communication with somebody they believe is a minor is immediately informed of the decoy's fake age. If they make a selection to proceed verbal exchange, "the team mobilizes quickly to put a name to the offender," and arms that data over to police.
Season 2 of Undercover Underage premieres Monday, May 1, at Nine p.m. EST on Investigation Discovery.
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