Posted on 10/14/2014 4:51:55 PM PDT by Morgana
More than one million children are being forced into pornography, says an international expert helping Belarus fight sex trafficking.
Natalia Zhak, who leads an international project designed to improve the ability of Belarus to combat the slave trade, also said that 20 percent of children aged 10 to 17 receive sexual proposals from adults via the Internet.
“With the advance of information technologies in the modern world children receive more and more proposals of questionable nature. It mainly happens over the Internet," Zhak told Belarus News.
"The proposals include invitations to take part in some video shooting...Later on children land in situations they cannot get out of on their own. According to some data, about one third of children are subject to violence over the Internet but only in 10% of the cases their parents or relatives, who are responsible for the wellbeing of these children, can guess or suspect such facts.”
According to Hysen Sisco, Communications Director for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, child pornography often comes from how "porn influences and changes the viewer’s sexual template, normalizing and sexualizing things like violence, degradation, and child abuse."
"When the user sees child porn or pseudo-child porn (porn performers over the age of 18 made to look and act much younger), they begin to believe such acts are acceptable and may even act on that belief with real children," Hysen told LifeSiteNews.
How should the legal system deal with these criminals? Hysen says that while they "need to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis," one step lawmakers could take immediately is to enforce "the current obscenity laws on a federal level, to prevent such crimes on the local level."
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"These laws prohibit the distribution of hardcore, obscene pornography on the internet, on cable/satellite or hotel/motel TV, and in all retail shops. If the Attorney General would uphold the laws, this type of predatory activity would not be so prevalent in our communities and online."
One million?
Child pornography is certainly evil, but those who fight it just make themselves look ridiculous with pronouncements like this. Sounds like something Joe Biden would say.
Pls explain.
Dittos to your thoughts. And 100% evil it is.....but one million?? That sounds like an attention grabbing number this guy just pulled out of his hat. I also pray that that number is way to high.
...20 percent of children aged 10 to 17 receive sexual proposals from adults via the Internet.
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What are preteens doing on the Internet? What are any young people doing on the Internet in sites where such could occur? Are their parents total idiots?
+1
“That sounds like an attention grabbing number this guy just pulled out of his hat. I also pray that that number is way to high.”
Maybe so, but there are still countless children, and I mean 17 year olds or less, that are involved in pornography. Most are not by choice but by coercion. It is a sick industry and the purveyors should be hanged, but liberals the planet over see nothing wrong with it. The homosexuals in this country believe there should be no age of consent.
One million?
Every year???
Seems awfully high....
start executing these people and maybe we’ll see some improvement
remember it is still legal in some places I hear (Tokyo, Russia etc)
I wonder how many are involved in those “live” shows on the net?
You are assuming the “One million” they are referring to are in the United States alone. This is a world wide problem.
Those are far easier to shutdown as their live streams are easily traced. The still images and recorded videos are a bear to find as they are easily passed around.
you don't seem to know much about present day children nor the internet...Yes, their parents are total idiots and many, if not most of them have TOTAL access to the internet.....Why, you might ask...because the internet is an extraordinarily good babysitter....kids will be transfixed to it for hours....and they aren't looking up Howdy Doody...
I agree. I always see read flags when "some data" and some unnamed and unqualified "expert" are central to a story like this. And how exactly does a miscreant go about subjecting children to violence over the internet?
Don't parents/guardians have a critical role in this "crime?" Why aren't they prosecuted?
No, I was thinking world-wide; it still seems awfully high to me.
I have the feeling the author was inventing a little.
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