Topic: Child Pornography
ISPs urged to take action against child porn
February 28, 2005 ·
A NON-GOVERNMENT organization is urging local Internet service providers (ISPs) to be more pro-active in combating child pornography over the Internet through the use of a software developed in the United Kingdom.
Read More...NEWSLETTER September-October 2004
October 3, 2004 ·
Dear friends, defenders of children, It’s been a while since you received a newsletter from us at PREDA. We have to reduce costs. We need the money for more children being released from the prisons by the courts and being sent to us. We cannot refuse them. We are as busy as ever helping the […]
Read More...Ecpat: Child Sex Abuse And Social Customs [Study]
January 30, 2003 ·
A recent report released by the Bangkok-based international child protection campaign group, ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes), found that socially accepted customs are being used to shelter child sexual abuse in various countries. The report highlights that though child marriages are unlawful in many countries, they are […]
Read More...The Younger The Better: 19,250 Children Trapped In Cambodia's Sex Industry
January 30, 2003 ·
A UNICEF survey concluded that 35 percent of Cambodia’s 55,000 prostitutes are children under the age of 16. The oldest girls in the sex industry today are teenagers, says Sao Chhoeurth, who works with AFESIP, a French NGO that rescues and rehabilitates child prostitutes. With recent media attention on pedophiles such as Gary Glitter in […]
Read More...UK and Irish police raid homes
July 1, 2002 ·
Operation Magenta (UK) The biggest ever operation against paedophiles who use the Internet was carried out recently when police simultaneously raided 75 homes across the country. Operation Magenta was the result of a six month investigation focussing on those using chat rooms to advertise and trade in child abuse images. Police believe that many of […]
Read More...Operation Artus
April 6, 2002 ·
In early March the United States and 10 other countries began seizing computers and videos as part of an international raid to break up a child pornography ring. The investigation called Operation Artus begain in November 2001. Agents of the German national police discovered that a German man had been exchanging child pornography over the […]
Read More...Operation Candyman
April 6, 2002 ·
In yet another successful operation, the FBI recently announced that over 89 persons in over 20 US states have been charged in the first phase of a nation wide crackdown on the proliferation of child pornography on the Internet. During the course of this investigation known as Operation Candyman over 266 searches were conducted with […]
Read More...Operation Wonderland Aussie jailed for 3 years
April 6, 2002 ·
An Australian who was part of the international child pornography ring, Wonderland, has been jailed for 3 years. David Alec Baines 37, one of two Western Australians prosecuted for involvement in Wonderland, was found with over 200 images on his home and work computers which detailed stories about sex with children and a chat log […]
Read More...Suicide Risk for Abused Children
October 23, 2001 ·
A recently released report from Westmead Children’s Hospital has found that sexually abused children are up to 13 times more likely to attempt or commit suicide that other young people. Doctors spent 10 years assessing almost 200 sexually abused children aged 5-15 years in the largest study of its kind. The children were assessed at […]
Read More...'Sex Tourist Jailed for Abusing Girls of Seven'
June 19, 2001 ·
A “SEX tourist” who carried out attack on two very young girls in Cambodia was jailed for eight years yesterday.
Mark Towners, 52, a father of two, pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court to 14 counts of abuse including sex with a girl under 13 after his wife told police of pictures she had found on his computer.
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