Monday, January 12, 2004

4NI - Northern Ireland On The Internet

Pornography on the Internet and Child Abuse

In UK, the NCH, a children's charity group, claimed that internet use has promoted child abuse because of a massive increase in convictions since 1988.

The fact that criminals are being caught, whereas previously, they could use manipulation and a shield of disbelief to keep their activities secret. They used to get away with crimes on children.

The modern environment appears to be removing more paedophiles from society. The internet is not causing the sickness, it is most likely that they were subjected to abuse as children, but the internet provides a "safer" option to act out their disease.

In the old environment of closed doors and secrets that paedophiles only had to leave town in order to remain anonymous.

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