A new study of British police reports shows that several thousand young boys have committed sex offenses against other children. Analysts at The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) believe there is a link to Internet pornography flooding the minds of kids -- even those too young to read -- a phenomenon not confined to the U.K.
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UPDATE 7/22/13: British Government to End Kids' Access to On-line Porn
-- From "Five-year-olds among thousands of young people accused of sex offences" by Kevin Rawlinson, The Independent 3/4/13
The figures, obtained by the NSPCC, show that between 2009 and 2012 police dealt with more than 5,000 cases in which under-18s were accused of sexual offences against other children. The cases included allegations of rape and sexual assault, and the data showed that almost all of the alleged offenders were boys. In all, there were 4,562 individuals accused of offences, 98 per cent of whom were male.
Claire Lilley, a policy adviser at the NSPCC, said: "We are treating an increasing number of children who have carried out online grooming, harassment in chatrooms and 'sexting'. We hope our findings will ring alarm bells with the authorities that this is a problem which needs urgent attention." She added:"In some cases older children are attacking younger ones and in other cases it's sexual violence within a teenage relationship. While more research needs to be done on this problem, we know that technology and easy access to sexual material is warping young people's views of what is 'normal' or acceptable behaviour."
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From "Children, some aged five, commit thousands of child sex offences" by Wesley Johnson, Home Affairs Correspondent, UK Telegraph 3/4/13
At least three [police] forces – Avon and Somerset, Humberside and Cambridgeshire – all showed abusers as young as five.
The NSPCC, which has worked with five-year-old children showing “precocious sexual behaviour”, said it was often the case they were mimicking things they simply should not have seen at such a young age.
The children may have seen pornography on an older brother’s computer, shared a bedroom with teenagers and witnessed inappropriate behaviour, or could have been allowed in a room while parents were watching sex scenes on the television.
Three out of five child victims knew their attacker, in one in three cases it was a family friend or acquaintance, and in one in five it was a family member, the NSPCC said.
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From "Our Sexualised Society Is Harming Our Children and Turning Some of Them Into Abusers" by Jon Brown, NSPCC's Head of Strategy & Development for Sexual Abuse 3/5/13
. . . sex offenders are often seen as adult men targeting, grooming and abusing children but the fact is that children and teenagers are far more likely to know their attacker than not and, increasingly, the attacker is likely to be a peer such as someone they know from school. Where the relationship between victim and abuser was recorded (again, they often didn't have this information), in 80% of cases the children were known to each other.
We're concerned at the NSPCC that easy access to hardcore pornography is warping young people's views of what is 'normal' or acceptable sexual behaviour. Adults have a choice about what to watch within the law, but my concern is that the internet is exposing ever younger eyes to things they are just not yet ready to process. They are learning about sex from porn and not from proper respectful relationships. Much of the material is violent and simply vile; it paints a picture of sex as one sided that has no basis in love or respect. Just last week two boys were jailed for raping a girl after watching violent pornography on the internet.
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From "Porn turned thousands of British children into sex offenders, report says" by Ben Johnson, LifeSiteNews.com 3/4/13
The report's content, though specific to Great Britain, contains universal truths.
“Child-on-child sex abuse and rape is a growing problem in every culture where pornography flourishes,” Patrick Trueman, a former federal prosecutor in the Reagan administration and president of Morality In Media, told LifeSiteNews.com.
“Children act out what they see. If they see acts of love and charity, they will mimic those,” Trueman said. “But when they see sexual violence, domination, rape, and other similar acts so commonly depicted in modern-day pornography, as today's children do, they will act out those, as well.”
Therapists continually cite the role access to pornography and sexually explicit television scenarios play in sexualizing children and, in some cases, triggering them to exploit others.
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From "Iceland's plan to ban Internet porn sparks uproar" by Jill Lawless and Gudjon Helgason, Associated Press 2/25/13
The government of the tiny North Atlantic nation is drafting plans to ban pornography, in print and online, in an attempt to protect children from a tide of violent sexual imagery.
Pornography is already banned in Iceland, and has been for decades — but the term is not defined, so the law is not enforced. Magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse are on sale in book stores, and more hardcore material can be bought from a handful of sex shops. "Adult" channels form part of digital TV packages.
Iceland's left-of-center government insists it is not setting out to sweep away racy magazines or censor sex. The ban would define pornography as material with violent or degrading content.
Gunnarsdottir said the committee is still exploring the details of how a porn ban could be enforced. One possibility would be to make it illegal to pay for porn with Icelandic credit cards. Another, more controversial, route would be a national Internet filter or a list of website addresses to be blocked.
That idea has Internet-freedom advocates alarmed.
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