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There are two questions sexual predators ask children when they are grooming them online.

Former detective and cyber safety expert Brett Lee saw the horrors of child exploitation firsthand while working undercover.

“One of the first questions I’d get asked every single time, ‘Do you talk to your parents about what you do online?'” Mr Lee said.

“If I said ‘yes’, they’re gone.

“The second question an online child predator would ask me was, ‘Are you in your bedroom?’

“Because what a bedroom gives people is a perception of privacy, which gives them control and that’s where all the bad stuff happens in that private environment.”

A man in a suit and collared shirt smiles.
Brett Lee says predators will often ask children, “Do you talk to your parents?” when connecting online.(Supplied: Brett Lee)

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