Online predators are capitalizing on children with unlimited access to the internet through social media and online gaming, and police are using that intelligence to put them behind bars.

"The accessibility to our kids makes them a perfect target and they're vulnerable, they trust. They don't believe someone's trying to lie to them," Jeremy Wright, a Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI Louisville division said.

The FBI is one of a handful of agencies across the state and nationwide working to crack these cases, with forensic specialists working around the clock. Specialists are sifting through cell phones, laptops, DVRs, even the data in your car system for any evidence that could put a predator behind bars.

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