GRAYSON COUNTY, Tex. -- It's a horrifying scenario for parents ––your child solicited online by a sexual predator. But now the Texas Attorney General is working to put a stop to such crimes. Rashi Vats reports.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott recently proposed tightening restrictions on sex offenders' Internet usage, something that met with support from local investigators because they are seeing more and more cases of Internet solicitation than ever before.

According to the National Sex Offender Registry, one in five American teenagers who regularly log onto the Internet has received an unwanted sexual solicitation through the web.

Grayson County Sheriff's investigators say many of the more than 203 registered sex offenders in Grayson County have used the Internet to find their victims.

"In today's world, the Internet is the main source to attract the children because they can get in there and pose as another child or another friend or a counselor willing to help a child," Sgt. Rickey Wheeler of the Grayson County Sheriff's Office says.

One of the latest offenders to be caught was 34-year-old Clarence Augustine of Dallas. Augustine was arrested last Thursday for failing to register as a sex offender. His offense was committed through the Internet website, MySpace.

The increasing use of the Internet for sexual offenses has lead Attorney General Greg Abbott to call for stricter monitoring of sex offenders.

Abbott's proposal recommends that offenders be forced to register their online identities and cell phone numbers, and even prohibits Internet use for some convicted offenders.

Whether or not these laws will be adopted will be up to the State Legislature.

Wheeler says there are some simple things you can do to keep your kids safe.

"If you have a child, know what they do on the computer. Check their computer. There is all kinds of software out there now that will send you emails and messages of the sites your child is going on."

Wheeler says stricter laws monitoring sex offenders would help decrease assaults, but until they are passed deputies will do their best to investigate any reported cases.

"If it's more than one, it's more than we would like here."

We will continue to follow the Attorney General's proposal as it heads to the Legislature.