ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A new task force set up by Virginia's attorney general aims to keep children safe on the Internet.

The Youth Internet Safety Task Force is made up of law enforcement, the U.S. attorneys in the commonwealth, representatives of the technology industry and educators.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children hosted the task force's first meeting Friday. At the meeting, officials demonstrated posing as a young girl in a chat room, and someone quickly responded and wanted to turn on his Web cam and show the girl something.

Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell said there are 20,000 people trolling online at any time and 50,000 images of child pornography are sent over the Internet every week.

With AOL headquartered in northern Virginia, the state has a unique opportunity to stop online sexual predators, News4's I.J. Hudson reported.

"I think we've got a duty here in Virginia in particular to do something about it, but it takes cooperation and teamwork of not only law enforcement and policy makers, but industry leaders, parents, educators in order to come up with the ideas that make sense," McDonnell said.

The education of parents and children was emphasized Friday. AOL has been emphasizing parental control tools for years.

"We also give them technical tools to restrict the level of access, particularly for their children," said John Ryan of AOL.

Representatives from Google.com and MySpace.com attended. MySpace was anxious to show it is increasing security at its site to protect young users.

Rick Lane of MySpace said the Web site has initiated a public service campaign aimed at parents, telling them to get involved and see what MySpace is all about. The Web site offers tools for parents to remove their children's profiles or monitor what their children are doing.

Ernie Allen, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's president, said that it is better to prevent children from being exposed to online predators and that parents have to be brought up to speed to make that happen.

"We face a problem here where there are still millions of parents who don't have any idea of what their kids are doing online, who don't know how to log on, who don't know where the on-off switch is, who are not setting limits," Allen said.

The task force will release a report later this year with suggestions on what different groups can do to help keep children safe online.