Topic: Internet Crimes
Children 'switching from TV to mobile internet'
January 10, 2012 · By Sean Coughlan, BBC News
Television is being pushed aside by mobile internet gadgets, a UK survey of young people’s technology suggests. The number of children with televisions in their bedroom is falling…
Read More...Minor raped and murdered after facebook contact
October 31, 2009 ·
Andrea Hall wept as she urged bosses to take action to stop predatory sex fiends trawling for victims.
Ashleigh, 17, was allegedly lured to her death after meeting sex offender Peter Chapman online.
The 32-year-old is believed to have tricked her into thinking he was 17.
Read More...Major German online companies agree to block child porn website
April 17, 2009 ·
German internet providers have grudgingly agreed to block websites containing child pornography. Critics say their deal with the government won’t make much of a difference.
Read More...International failure to identify and protect children on child abuse images (child pornography)
October 10, 2006 ·
A new report published today (Tuesday, 10th October) reveals serious gaps in the protection of sexually abused children whose abuse has been filmed or photographed and distributed over the Internet.
Read More...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...Hawaii: Legislation to End Sex Tourism and Hold Sex Tour Operators Accountable
March 2, 2004 ·
Every May and November, Melvin Hamaguchi of Video Travel in Honolulu, Hawaii, leads sex tourists on his Ultimate Asian Sex Tour to Thailand, which he describes as “The Sex Capital Of The World!!” Mr. Hamaguchi provides customers with single occupancy rooms to “enjoy the sexual pleasures with the girl or girls of your choice….” He […]
Read More...Child Sexual Exploitation and the Internet (September 2003)
September 7, 2003 · By Childwise, ECPAT
PERTH
A Perth man has recently been charged with molesting three girls he met in a webs chat room. Police allege that the 31 year old man met the three girls aged 14 and 15 via a chat room in February this year and later asked them to come to his home.
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 […]
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