Bangkok Post reports:
Vienna (dpa) – Pictures flicker across a computer screen. A little girl, no more than five or six. Bound and tortured. Raped. Begging Daddy to stop.
Horror fiction? No – an ever more alarming reality. “Eighty per cent of the abuse seen in online child porn is done by people the children know,” said Leila Ben Debba, of ICMEC, theInternational Centre for Missing and Exploited Chidren. Experts like Ben Debba believe direct family members to be responsible for 45 per cent of the abuse […] rest are doctors, teachers, sports coaches or other persons of authority, permeating all social levels.
Child pornography and child abuse may be as old as Mankind, but the internet has opened new channels and forums for distribution, experts gathered at a Vienna conference agree.
A key problem is lack of legislation: […] One investigation traced a single image being traded 800,000 times within six months, involving six million different IP addresses. Those children abused are getting younger, and the abuse increasingly brutal. […]
The experts wish list after the conference? “Education, education, education,” Ben Debba suggested. Educating parents, children, lawmakers and the society as a whole about the crime is a top priority. […]
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