Children@Risk
from Paedophiles & Pornagraphers

• 1 in 7 parents do not know what their children use the internet for*
  
• 1 in 4 kids are accidently exposed to nudity or sexual content online**
• 1 in 5 kids have received a sexual solicitation online**
• 2 in 3 homes have no internet protection***
  

Internet Pornographers & Paedophiles
use toys to catch Children

Children are being drawn to pornographic websites by the use of toy brand names... Youngsters searching the Internet for Christmas present ideas, such as Barbie and Pokemon, find the words are linked to sites containing obscene material...[via] search engines. [Paedophiles are using the same technique to draw children to chatrooms they use.]

Researchers found nealy 12,000 examples of names being used in this way...They typed in the names of 26 children's favourites, including the Muppets, Mr Men, and characters from Toy Story.

Of the unsuitable links researchers found 30% featured hard core material, while the rest contained nudity, obscene language or extreme violence.

Daily Mail, 17 November 2000, Envisional Study

Children @ Risk from Paedophiles

Paedophiles contact 20% Internet Children
"ONE in five children who use computer "chatrooms" has been approached over the Internet by paedophiles," says the police officer heading the Home Office's internet crime forum.
Daily Telegraph, 3 December 2000, on UK Government Police Report

Internet Chatroom predator seduced 13 year old girl
A MAN who lured a 13-year-old girl to his home for sex after meeting her through an internet chat room was jailed for five years yesterday in what is believed to be the first prosecution of its kind in Britain.
Daily Telegraph, 25 October 2000

Internet Paedophile Ring Broken - for how long?
On Monday [12th February 2001] seven men will be sentenced ...
for exchanging three-quarters of a million sexually explicit images
of children over the internet. They were part of The Wonderland Club, a world-wide paedophile ring.

The price of entry was 10,000 original images of child abuse. The
investigation revealed that more than 200 men in 13 different countries were involved. ... I saw unimaginable depravity and the most inhuman treatment of children. Hardened detectives involved in the investigation were clearly shaken.

[But this was not just about passing images. It was about creating them.] An eight year-old girl, Allison, was staying the night with her school friend. Ronald Riva, the friend's father, took Allison into the computer room. Using a web camera linked up to his computer he broadcast his abuse of the child live, online, to his friends.

It may not be the end of the club. David Hines [one of the Paedophiles] says, "they'll hide up and then they'll go looking for each other and they'll regroup and the group will eventually be as big as it was, with new members and with all the old pictures still floating around out there."
Jane Corbin, Panorama, 11 Feb 2001, BBC TV

Children @ Risk from Pornagraphers

New Era for Children @ Risk
The US Department of Justice said, "Never before in the history of
telecommunications media in the United States has so much indecent (and obscene) material been so easily accessible by so many minors in so many American homes with so few restrictions."

20% Internet Children upset, embarrassed or frightened
An NOP study suggests children who gain access to pornographic material are instilled with a sense of shame. In December ['98] the
research group NOP undertook a survey to look at what children were searching for on the Net and how they reacted to what they found. 20% of children had found content that upset, embarrassed or frightened them. Two-fifths said they found something 'rude'.
NOP March 99

50% Internet Teenagers unwittingly find offensive material
[Another] survey also found that 53 percent of the teens interviewed
had encountered offensive web sites that could include pornography,
hate or violence. Ninety-one percent of those teens had come upon
offensive sites unwittingly while engaged in benign activities,
such as conducting research for school projects or merely surfing the
web. Yankelovich Partners 99
[Not surprising: 60% of internet data traffic is pornographic.]

Internet Pornography is Big Business
Forrester Research says the online porn peddlers earned [last year] USD900 million, and Datamonitor offers USD1.39 billion as a likely figure.
Nua Internet Analysis, August 21st, 2000

Internet Health Hazard: 6 year olds addicted to porn
A SURVEY of internet users in America has uncovered data suggesting that more than 200,000 have become effectively addicted to pornographic web sites and sex chat-rooms. The research confirms long-held fears that obscene material can be easily posted on web sites and accessed by anyone.

"This is a hidden public health hazard exploding, in part, because very few are recognising it as such or taking it seriously," researchers at Stanford University in California reported. They said people had become obsessed with the benefits of the internet and had ignored the more negative aspects.

Researchers said: "Children as young as six are sitting in their bedrooms and browsing through indecent images without any problem. It is helping create a whole generation of people addicted to pornography."
Telegraph 2 March 2000

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in the News Sunday Post

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