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Hours ‘trawling’ the Internet for online porn led to 15-year-old rapist’s crimes
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Posted on 03/06/2013 12:56:31 PM PST by Morgana

LONDON, March 6, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 15-year-old rapist’s “interest in sexual matters was heightened” by “trawling through internet pornography,” a British court has heard in a shocking rape case.

The horrifying case involves a 14-year-old girl who was beaten, brutalised and raped after being tied to a chair by two boys, 14 and 15 years old. The older boy has admitted he was re-enacting scenes he had witnessed in violent online pornography. The court heard that the boy had viewed hours of such material each day for months leading up to the attack.

The victim’s distraught father has demanded that MPs implement controls. “Kids can get it on their mobile phones really easily,” he continued. “Any porn is inappropriate at that young age. But it’s the extreme violent nature that is worrying.”

“This will affect her for the rest of her life. She’s very quiet now, she’s a different person,” the girl’s father added.

“They can get it anywhere,” he said.

He called for restrictions saying, “Surely the safety of girls like my daughter is more important than people’s liberty,” the Daily Mail reports. The Mail is undertaking a public campaign to urge the government to install locks on violent pornography on the internet, a project that has received much opposition from libertarians who argue it is government interference with freedom of expression.

The boy’s interest in sex was “heightened” and left “unfulfilled” so that he wanted to “experiment,” Judge Simon Bourne-Arton has said. He told the boy, “Weak-willed you may be and weak-minded you may be, but you knew everything that you did to her. You may have been led, but you were led willingly.”

The 15-year-old boy was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison. The younger boy, described as more aggressive, has already been sentenced to four years. Both admitted to charges of rape and false imprisonment.

A massive public investigation in Scotland has revealed that young children are regularly gaining access to pornographic images through the Internet. Eight police forces and 23 council education departments have responded to a Freedom of Information request by the Scottish Herald that revealed authorities are aware of a growing problem.

Children and teenagers are using mobile phones for “sexting,” sending pornographic images to each other, a problem teachers and parents are aware of but can do little about, according to the Hearld. Many of the cases reported to the Herald were of older teenagers “sexting” much younger children, with the youngest being only eight.

The Herald quoted Chief Constable Colin McKerracher saying, “Professionals are coming across more situations where young people are at risk or have been harmed by experiences with the net.”


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: libertarians; moralabsolutes; porn
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1 posted on 03/06/2013 12:56:45 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana
Well, yeah, if this is true, it's pretty awful.

But the followup question would have to be -- which agency of the Obama administration do you want to empower to set standards for what can be posted to the Internet, and to prosecute violators?

2 posted on 03/06/2013 1:00:56 PM PST by Notary Sojac (Ut veniant omnes)
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To: Morgana

One could also make the case the the availability of porn and violent video games reduces violent crime because people interested in such things can get their jollies, if you will, in a virtual way rather than acting out their fantasies in the real world.


3 posted on 03/06/2013 1:03:57 PM PST by arista
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To: Morgana

Horrible story, but 15 year old boys who sick in the head raped before there was an Internet.

The boy needs to take responsibity for his crime and not blame pixels on a screen.


4 posted on 03/06/2013 1:04:17 PM PST by OKRA2012
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To: Morgana
I see no mention of parenting. No blocks on the home 'net, no making sure the PC is being used properly...always someone else s fault.

He called for restrictions saying, “Surely the safety of girls like my daughter is more important than people’s liberty,” the Daily Mail reports.
5 posted on 03/06/2013 1:05:54 PM PST by i_robot73 (We hold that all individuals have the Right to exercise sole dominion over their own lives - LP.org)
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To: Notary Sojac

“...which agency of the Obama administration...”

A society does it. It can’t be handed off to government. We used to know right from wrong and now we make believe we don’t.


6 posted on 03/06/2013 1:06:52 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: Morgana
While access to porn has gone up, violent crime including rape has gone down.

I am not saying the two are at all related, correlation isn’t causality - but in this case THERE ISN'T EVEN CORRELATION!!!!!

7 posted on 03/06/2013 1:07:25 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: Morgana

Just make all porn web sites end in .xxx

Just like ratings at movies, it helps parents.

If you want it, go get it. If you don’t, you can easily block it.


8 posted on 03/06/2013 1:08:22 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: Morgana
While access to porn has gone up, violent crime including rape has gone down.

I am not saying the two are at all related, correlation isn’t causality - but in this case THERE ISN'T EVEN CORRELATION!!!!!

9 posted on 03/06/2013 1:08:22 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: arista

Except it doesn’t reduce crime. It really only generates more of the abhorrent behavior by normalizing it.


10 posted on 03/06/2013 1:08:46 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: arista

“One could also make the case the the availability of porn and violent video games reduces violent crime because people interested in such things can get their jollies, if you will, in a virtual way rather than acting out their fantasies in the real world.”

In doing so one would indicate ones hopeless lack of understanding of Human Nature, or of history.


11 posted on 03/06/2013 1:09:00 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: TalBlack
We used to know right from wrong and now we make believe we don’t.

If the internet had been around in 1925, I suspect my granddad's generation would have been looking at the same amount of online porn as boys do today. No more, no less.

12 posted on 03/06/2013 1:10:07 PM PST by Notary Sojac (Ut veniant omnes)
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To: icwhatudo; GeronL

While you can get internet blockers most 14 year old hackers can get around them. These kids are smart!


13 posted on 03/06/2013 1:10:46 PM PST by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: driftdiver

Still boils down to either giving the government power to control what goes on the internet, or not giving it that power. What’s your choice??


14 posted on 03/06/2013 1:12:46 PM PST by Notary Sojac (Ut veniant omnes)
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To: Notary Sojac; driftdiver; Tax-chick

I say God bless Anthony Comstock we need more men and women like him.


15 posted on 03/06/2013 1:15:18 PM PST by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: icwhatudo
Just make all porn web sites end in .xxx

This is actually not a bad idea. All it requires is a universally accepted definition of "porn".

16 posted on 03/06/2013 1:15:23 PM PST by Notary Sojac (Ut veniant omnes)
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To: Morgana

As if a 15 year old couldn’t get past any lock if he wanted.


17 posted on 03/06/2013 1:18:24 PM PST by bgill
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To: Morgana
Mr. Comstock zealously protected innocent American eyes from the corrupting influence of erotic tomes.

Of course, to identify such tomes he had to read them himself first.

18 posted on 03/06/2013 1:19:23 PM PST by Notary Sojac (Ut veniant omnes)
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To: Morgana
“Surely the safety of girls like my daughter is more important than people’s liberty,”

Bollox that. Have the Gubmint take care of it instead of you teaching your daughter how to deal with violent attacks? Lazy git.

I know this is the UK but surely Krav Maga has not been outlawed yet. Poor excuse for a father.

19 posted on 03/06/2013 1:20:00 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Here once the embattled farmers stood... And fired the shot heard round the world.)
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To: Notary Sojac

How about ICANN making a rule and providing an xxx domain and slowly forcing the pornographers to that extension.

Allow the internet to police itself. Sure the pornos will complain and cheat, but if ICANN takes away their dot com and resells it because they keep turning it into a porn portal, well tough.

Blocking an entire extension would be a piece a cake for parents, ISP’s and phone companies.

The reason this hasn’t happened is because big money is being spread so pornographers have access to kids.


20 posted on 03/06/2013 1:20:08 PM PST by Valpal1
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