Cases like the recent one where an online sex offender, William Mitchell, met a minor, is becoming all too common throughout the country.

The U.S. Attorney General estimated that one out of five children between the ages of ten and 17 received at least one unwanted sex solicitation last year. Most of those kids don't tell their parents.

To help, there are Crimes Against Children Task Forces around the state with whom the attorney general works, like the Blue Ridge Thunder, to make sure incidents like the one this past weekend don't happen again.

Surveillance video at a Wal-Mart in Florida shows a young girl who had fallen victim to a sexual predator.

"They groom the children, by finding the child's wishes, desires, or needs, and then they convince the child that this is really a good thing to do," says Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd.

Even though William Mitchell is one more sexual predator behind bars, the Virginia Attorney General, Bob McDonnell, is taking steps to make sure something like this doesn't happen to young children.

"We, I think, are the first state in the nation this year to require Internet safety to be taught to children in the public schools in Virginia," says McDonnell. "So I've been spending a lot of time myself going around and talking to kids, teachers, parents."

McDonnell is also urging parents to keep the computer in a common area and not in the children's room, put appropriate filters on the computer, know how to check the online history, and make sure kids never give out personal or financial information.

Virginia is also requiring that registered sex offenders give their email address to their probation officers.

"We then turn all that information over to MySpace so that they can do a database blocks with all the individuals, so no convicted sex offenders should be allowed to be on MySpace because it's frequented by a lot of children," says McDonnell.

Blue Ridge Thunder offers tools for children and parents to use to learn more about Internet safety. It is just one more way to help protect kids from online predators.

Meanwhile, Mitchell faces multiple charges including enticing a child over the Internet and traveling to meet a minor.