6:40 pm, Mon 03 Jun 2013
Sexting 'common' in schools
"A charity has told Tyne Tees that 'sexting' has become so common that some children are being asked to take topless photos of themselves two or three times a week.
A national charity says the problem of sexting has become so common that girls are being asked to pose for pictures two or three times a week. Sexting is where children take explict pictures of themselves and send them to friends or post them on the internet."
http://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/story/2013-06-03/sexting-common-in-schools/
*****
Wednesday 12 June 2013
Who’s afraid of internet porn?
"The current panic about internet porn is born of adult anxieties rather than children’s degeneracy."
http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13702/
Basically... Porn is everywhere - Press Release
http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/content/press_release/content_505
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Friday, 14 June 2013
Saturday, 6 April 2013
Sue Berelowitz Does Not Quite Get 'Moral Panic', Does She?
9:00PM BST 03 Apr 2013
Entire school year groups have seen porn, children's watchdog says
"Entire year groups of young teenage children in schools have watched adult pornography, the children’s watchdog has warned.
16,000 at risk of child sex exploitation [sic]
Deputy children's commissioner Sue Berelowitz said that she had found that some boys felt they had an 'absolute entitlement to have sex with girls, any time, any place, any where, with whomsoever they wished' [and, what's new?].
Sue Berelowitz, deputy children's commissioner, suggested that the scale of access to adult pornography among children is now so widespread that it should trigger “moral panic” among parents, schools and the Government about what should be done.
Unpublished research [of course, unpublished and not peer-reviewed] by the Children's Commissioner into access to adult pornography among children is much more widespread than previously thought, with every boy and half the girls in a year group of 14-year-olds accessing pornography in an entire local authority area."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9970190/Entire-school-year-groups-have-seen-porn-childrens-watchdog-says.html
Classes where every 14-year-old boy has seen porn should trigger 'moral panic', warns children's watchdog
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2303717/Access-porn-Classes-14-year-old-boy-seen-porn-trigger-moral-panic.html
Mimi Spencer: We coddle our children with safety belts and personalised fairy tales, but no one is protecting them from internet porn
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2303304/Mimi-Spencer-We-coddle-children-safety-belts-personalised-fairy-tales-protecting-internet-porn.html
Children and pornography: Every 14-year-old boy has seen porn, says school study
http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/04/children-and-pornography-every-14-year-old-boy-has-seen-porn-says-school-study-3582622/
Fresh fears about children accessing porn
http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=22613
Schools expel 15 sex bullies a day: Even primary pupils driven to assaults by internet porn
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2302561/Schools-expel-15-sex-bullies-day-Even-primary-pupils-driven-assaults-internet-porn.html
Under-25s urged to report abusive under-age images
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/22140415
How the ubiquity of internet porn and smartphones means that younger and younger children are accessing brutal porn
http://theculturevulture.co.uk/blog/tell-me-why/how-the-ubiquity-of-internet-porn-and-smartphones-means-that-younger-and-younger-children-are-accessing-brutal-porn-a-very-personal-experience/
Entire school year groups have seen porn, children's watchdog says
"Entire year groups of young teenage children in schools have watched adult pornography, the children’s watchdog has warned.
16,000 at risk of child sex exploitation [sic]
Deputy children's commissioner Sue Berelowitz said that she had found that some boys felt they had an 'absolute entitlement to have sex with girls, any time, any place, any where, with whomsoever they wished' [and, what's new?].
Sue Berelowitz, deputy children's commissioner, suggested that the scale of access to adult pornography among children is now so widespread that it should trigger “moral panic” among parents, schools and the Government about what should be done.
Unpublished research [of course, unpublished and not peer-reviewed] by the Children's Commissioner into access to adult pornography among children is much more widespread than previously thought, with every boy and half the girls in a year group of 14-year-olds accessing pornography in an entire local authority area."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9970190/Entire-school-year-groups-have-seen-porn-childrens-watchdog-says.html
Classes where every 14-year-old boy has seen porn should trigger 'moral panic', warns children's watchdog
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2303717/Access-porn-Classes-14-year-old-boy-seen-porn-trigger-moral-panic.html
Mimi Spencer: We coddle our children with safety belts and personalised fairy tales, but no one is protecting them from internet porn
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2303304/Mimi-Spencer-We-coddle-children-safety-belts-personalised-fairy-tales-protecting-internet-porn.html
Children and pornography: Every 14-year-old boy has seen porn, says school study
http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/04/children-and-pornography-every-14-year-old-boy-has-seen-porn-says-school-study-3582622/
Fresh fears about children accessing porn
http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=22613
Schools expel 15 sex bullies a day: Even primary pupils driven to assaults by internet porn
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2302561/Schools-expel-15-sex-bullies-day-Even-primary-pupils-driven-assaults-internet-porn.html
Under-25s urged to report abusive under-age images
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/22140415
How the ubiquity of internet porn and smartphones means that younger and younger children are accessing brutal porn
http://theculturevulture.co.uk/blog/tell-me-why/how-the-ubiquity-of-internet-porn-and-smartphones-means-that-younger-and-younger-children-are-accessing-brutal-porn-a-very-personal-experience/
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Such Are Moral Crusaders And Vested Interests
Thursday 14 June 2012
Officialdom’s pervy fantasy world
"Recent reports of rampant child abuse in the UK owe more to the sordid mindset of officialdom than fact.
‘Sadistic child abuse is rife across Britain, MPs warned’; ‘Girls of 11 doing sex acts on rows of boys’; ‘Child abuse taking place in every “town, village and hamlet” in England’...
The origin of these depressing, not to mention salacious, headlines was England’s deputy children’s commissioner, Sue Berelowitz. Speaking before the House of Commons home affairs select committee as part of its inquiry into child sexual exploitation and so-called street-grooming, Berelowitz seemingly couldn’t stop herself from giving vent to her pervy imagination. ‘We should start from the assumption that children are being sexually exploited right the way across the country’, she said, seemingly oblivious to the rather sordid nature of such an assumption. Perhaps spotting a few raised eyebrows, she cited a source: ‘As one police officer who was the lead in a very big investigation in a very lovely, leafy, rural part of the country said to me: “There isn’t a town, village or hamlet in which children are not being sexually exploited.”’
On and on she went, coupling shrill assertion with allusions to proof. ‘In urban, rural and metropolitan areas’, she continued, ‘I have hard evidence of children being sexually exploited. That is part of what is going on in some parts of our country. It is very sadistic. It is very violent. It is very ugly.’"
"Recently, times have been tougher for the children’s commissioner. Having seen New Labour’s largesse replaced by the coalition’s quango-cutting desperation, the office knows it needs to justify itself. And what better way to do so than take advantage of the recent Rochdale street-grooming convictions and suggest that we are currently in the grip of a plague of child abuse. Its cynicism knows no bounds.
So not only should we treat the fear of rampant child abuse with the scepticism it deserves, but also how about abolishing the official fearmongers, too?"
http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12545/
Last updated: June 14th, 2012
'Sadistic child abuse' is rife, is it? Haven't we heard that hysterical claim before?
"In each of these unhinged panics, innocent people were arrested and families were ripped apart, as social workers who believed their own made-up horror stories invaded homes across Britain. And now Ms Berelowitz, the new Pervert-Finder General, wants us to believe that sadists lurk in every "town, village and hamlet" and that the government ought to do something about it. It is the latter bit we should really be worried about. Are these people even aware of how much they sound like the cranky overseers of the Salem witch trials? History tells us that when figures in authority insist that sadists and weirdos and witches are stalking the land and gobbling up our children, we should simply refuse to believe them."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100165297/sadistic-child-abuse-is-rife-is-it-havent-we-heard-that-hysterical-claim-before/
Officialdom’s pervy fantasy world
"Recent reports of rampant child abuse in the UK owe more to the sordid mindset of officialdom than fact.
‘Sadistic child abuse is rife across Britain, MPs warned’; ‘Girls of 11 doing sex acts on rows of boys’; ‘Child abuse taking place in every “town, village and hamlet” in England’...
The origin of these depressing, not to mention salacious, headlines was England’s deputy children’s commissioner, Sue Berelowitz. Speaking before the House of Commons home affairs select committee as part of its inquiry into child sexual exploitation and so-called street-grooming, Berelowitz seemingly couldn’t stop herself from giving vent to her pervy imagination. ‘We should start from the assumption that children are being sexually exploited right the way across the country’, she said, seemingly oblivious to the rather sordid nature of such an assumption. Perhaps spotting a few raised eyebrows, she cited a source: ‘As one police officer who was the lead in a very big investigation in a very lovely, leafy, rural part of the country said to me: “There isn’t a town, village or hamlet in which children are not being sexually exploited.”’
On and on she went, coupling shrill assertion with allusions to proof. ‘In urban, rural and metropolitan areas’, she continued, ‘I have hard evidence of children being sexually exploited. That is part of what is going on in some parts of our country. It is very sadistic. It is very violent. It is very ugly.’"
"Recently, times have been tougher for the children’s commissioner. Having seen New Labour’s largesse replaced by the coalition’s quango-cutting desperation, the office knows it needs to justify itself. And what better way to do so than take advantage of the recent Rochdale street-grooming convictions and suggest that we are currently in the grip of a plague of child abuse. Its cynicism knows no bounds.
So not only should we treat the fear of rampant child abuse with the scepticism it deserves, but also how about abolishing the official fearmongers, too?"
http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12545/
Last updated: June 14th, 2012
'Sadistic child abuse' is rife, is it? Haven't we heard that hysterical claim before?
"In each of these unhinged panics, innocent people were arrested and families were ripped apart, as social workers who believed their own made-up horror stories invaded homes across Britain. And now Ms Berelowitz, the new Pervert-Finder General, wants us to believe that sadists lurk in every "town, village and hamlet" and that the government ought to do something about it. It is the latter bit we should really be worried about. Are these people even aware of how much they sound like the cranky overseers of the Salem witch trials? History tells us that when figures in authority insist that sadists and weirdos and witches are stalking the land and gobbling up our children, we should simply refuse to believe them."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100165297/sadistic-child-abuse-is-rife-is-it-havent-we-heard-that-hysterical-claim-before/
CEOP's Back Against The Wall - Dirty Tricks As Usual
14 June 2012 Last updated at 01:22
Warning of link between downloading and child sex attacks
"Referrals to Ceop increased by 181% between April last year and March
People who download child abuse images pose a risk of committing sex attacks on children, says a specialist police child protection unit. [more do, that do not download them ... BTW, does CEOP/IWF not download and view them - a lot?]
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) centre wants police to prioritise those caught with such images, who have access to children. [they always have]
Its report said internet images are becoming more extreme and sadistic.
This comes after a committee of MPs heard child sexual exploitation was taking place "all over the country".
Despite the increasing extremity of the nature of abusive images available online, the severity and number of images held by offenders are not enough alone to assess the risk they pose or the sentence they should receive, the report said.[nor is it]
Ceop also called for a full risk assessment to be considered before a judge hands down any sentence.{see PSRs]
The idea that any case may result in the identification of a victim should be at the forefront of every investigation, Ceop said.
"The landscape of austerity coupled with the increasing volumes of work that child protection teams are faced with in the UK is unprecedented," its report said.
Referrals to Ceop increased by 181% between April last year and March this year.
And its report cited a study of almost 100 case studies from 34 police forces, which found offenders who both possessed child abuse images and attacked [sic] children were "almost exclusively white males", with most aged between 19 and 45.
'Terrible trade'
The report said that those not in work, and possibly therefore those with high levels of internet usage, those working in schools or care work, and those in manual and manufacturing jobs made up most of the sample.
"This point in time has the potential to be a golden age for child protection [sic], but the evolution of technology is likely to make the internet an increasingly difficult place to investigate," the report added.
"The predicted dramatic rise in work volumes will require a fresh look at policing priorities and the resources allocated to this area of policing. [there is the rub]"
Jon Brown, head of the NSPCC's sexual abuse programme, said: "This supports research the NSPCC carried out last year, which revealed one in three of those convicted of possessing child abuse images has also committed other serious sexual offences against children." [oh really?]
"It's a very worrying situation and more research is needed on the most effective punishment and treatment of offenders caught viewing child abuse pictures.
"Trying to stop the terrible trade [sic] in these images is obviously a huge task. But it mustn't be seen in isolation. It's part of a much bigger sexual abuse problem."
Meanwhile, England's Deputy Children's Commissioner Sue Berelowitz has told the Commons Home Affairs Committee that girls as young as 11 were being expected to perform sex acts on "line-ups of boys", she said. The committee promised an inquiry into the claims."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18428289
Thursday 14 June 2012
A Picture of Abuse
"UK national centre for child protection to publish new report on child abuse image possession offenders and the direct risk [sic] they pose to children.
There is a link between viewing abuse images and contact sexual abuse of children [well, of course there is 'a link', to claim otherwise would be ridiculous; but, that is not your little game, is it Peter?]
Opportunity and access to children is a significant indicator of risk [so, it is easier to eat the chocolate, if the chocolate is present? - OK]
More police resources should be directed towards ‘image-only’ offences {ah, now we see ... any thoughts on who could do it?]"
http://ceop.police.uk/Media-Centre/Press-releases/2012/A-Picture-of-Abuse/
14 June 2012
A Picture of Abuse
"CEOP's thematic assessment of the risk of contact child sexual abuse posed by those who possess indecent images of children."
http://ceop.police.uk/Documents/ceopdocs/CEOP%20IIOCTA%20Executive%20Summary.pdf
27 July 2011
Child sexual abuse images convictions
"One in three of those convicted of possessing child abuse images has also committed other serious sex offences against children the NSPCC reveals today (27 July 2011).
Some of these have been found guilty of indecent assault, gross indecency, grooming and inciting children to carry out sex acts on webcams.
The details are revealed in a review of 284 UK court cases over a six month period last year involving those found guilty of possessing indecent images.(1) In 98 of these cases the offenders had also been grooming children or had committed sex assaults on under 16s.
In total, we found 284 court cases reported in the media which resulted in a conviction for child abuse images offences. In a third of cases (98), the offender had also been found guilty of grooming children or had committed sexual assaults on children - either previously or in same court case."
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/news-and-views/media-centre/press-releases/2011/11-07-27-child-sexual-abuse-images-convictions/11-07-27-child-sexual-abuse-images-convictions_wdn83516.html
Re: CEOP Report – A Picture of Abuse http://ceop.police.uk/Media-Centre/Press-releases/2012/A-Picture-of-Abuse/
"Paedophile’s view indecent images of children and the sexual abuse of children and animals as ‘victimless crimes’ and often claim that they need to view these images as a kind of methadone to keep them off the real stuff – when we have always known that nothing could be further from the truth. [how do you know that?]
I am so glad to see senior child protectors like CEOP working to explode some of the many myths paedophiles have put about over the years about their unspeakable crimes against children. [such as?]
Speaking as a victim of this crime [evidence?] and as an awarded victims advocate [sic] for victims of this crime, I can confirm that paedophiles themselves will admit that viewing indecent images of children is for them at the very least, a gateway crime to more ‘hands on’ offending and at best, simply allows them to maintain their inhuman urges until they can get their hands on the real thing and even helps them to network their way to the real thing. [you make many claims, with no evidence ... do you ever intend to provide any? Do you need even more cash to help you do so?]
We hope that this insightful and deeply disturbing report, along with the others released this week, will now inspire Mr Cameron to release some much needed and urgent funding [ah, we see] for the child protectors and victim advocates.
By Shy Keenan [tells readers all they need to know] from www.thephoenixpost.com"
http://www.tpcauk.com/
http://www.facebook.com/thephoenixpostuk
Thursday 14 June 2012 00.05 BST
Online child abuse images 'becoming more extreme, sadistic and violent'
"The children in these images are getting younger and the offences committed against them are getting more serious and extreme," said Andy Baker, deputy chief executive of the CEOP Centre. "Not only has a child been abused when these images were taken but they are being abused again each time that image is viewed."
"Donald Findlater, of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a charity dedicated to preventing child sexual abuse, said: "There is no doubt that the possession of indecent images of children is a growing problem. But our responses need to include prevention of this behaviour and we need to distinguish those at low risk of contact abuse - probably the majority - from the minority who are high risk. Children and families deserve a full and balanced analysis of this problem and of the effective responses to it.""
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jun/14/child-abuse-images-more-violent
Tuesday 19 June 2012
Police crack-down on net paedophiles [sic]
"But it is only the latest example of the work of the Sussex POLIT [sic] which was first established in July 2008. It acts as the specific point of contact for all suspected paedophile on-line offences [sic] in the county.
The team consists of eight detectives who progress the intelligence and execute the warrants against suspected offenders. Much of the intelligence comes from CEOP and law enforcement agencies world-wide, but they also receive information from other forces and agencies in the UK, and from local people.
Detective Superintendent Nev Kemp said; “This area of policing is particularly difficult not only due to the nature of the images officers have to view, but also to the devious electronic methods the criminals use to try to conceal their offending across the web.
“Since its creation the team has dealt with over 400 cases. On average we have at any one time around 60 active cases, 40 suspects on bail or charged, and 20 initial referrals under intelligence progression prior to any arrest.
“We have viewed and removed from circulation millions of images, all deeply offensive and insulting to children, and many of them of the most sickening type.
“In doing this we have helped the world-wide fight against this evil trade, and have also helped safeguard thousands of children not only in Sussex but worldwide. Most of the offenders circulate and re-circulate images they have found elsewhere, and we must never forget that every such image is by definition [sic] an image of a child being abused and its very existence helps fuel the demand [sic]. In addition some others have also committed specific offences against children themselves, either by inciting them to commit indecent acts on-line or by direct physical contact.
“This is a continual battle against the abusers but it is also an area of policing where there is now a really close co-operation with law enforcement across the country and across the world. Given that increasing level of co-operation, and with public support and information, we are confident that we can continue to make inroads on the problem. Offenders need to know that we will continue to target them and they can expect a knock on the door at any time."
http://www.ryeandbattleobserver.co.uk/news/local-news/police-crack-down-on-net-paedophiles-1-3966926
*****
Comment:
CEOP are fighting for their very existence, in real terms ... hence, the OCC (England) stepping up to inflate any claim CEOP requires (recent HO select committee).
The OSC will happily respond to these claims, soon.
Full analysis to follow, but, for now ...
"Every such study I have read, including this one, fails to address the fundamental question, the one prompted by para 2 of this report. Namely: If public access to indecent images of children has risen so dramatically (the CEOP report claims a factor of at least 1,000), and if viewing IIOCs disposes people to contact offences, why is there no evidence of a corresponding increase in contact offences?
All such reports - again including this one - try to dodge the point by claiming that so much contact abuse goes unreported that any variation doesn't show in the reported figures. That's just another way of saying "We have no idea what the numbers are so we can't draw any useful conclusions at all". But you can't write a 200-page report, or get a 20 per cent budget increase, out of that, although this report comes close to admitting it at times."
"This is not about increases in budgets, it's about controlling the internet. The government is shit scared of the internet and the power it wields anonymously and is determined to apply censorship in one form or another. Oh, they can dress it up in nice sounding phrases, e.g. the new snooping bill: "We won't have the power to read the contents", but those powers will simply be put on the back burner until the population has got used to the current round of legislation."
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/uk.legal/LY_XZPMpUeY
The Effects of Child Pornography
http://newgon.com/wiki/Research:_Child_Pornography
No link between child porn and sexual abuse
http://xuk.obu-investigators.com/library/72/nolink.htm
*****
Warning of link between downloading and child sex attacks
"Referrals to Ceop increased by 181% between April last year and March
People who download child abuse images pose a risk of committing sex attacks on children, says a specialist police child protection unit. [more do, that do not download them ... BTW, does CEOP/IWF not download and view them - a lot?]
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) centre wants police to prioritise those caught with such images, who have access to children. [they always have]
Its report said internet images are becoming more extreme and sadistic.
This comes after a committee of MPs heard child sexual exploitation was taking place "all over the country".
Despite the increasing extremity of the nature of abusive images available online, the severity and number of images held by offenders are not enough alone to assess the risk they pose or the sentence they should receive, the report said.[nor is it]
Ceop also called for a full risk assessment to be considered before a judge hands down any sentence.{see PSRs]
The idea that any case may result in the identification of a victim should be at the forefront of every investigation, Ceop said.
"The landscape of austerity coupled with the increasing volumes of work that child protection teams are faced with in the UK is unprecedented," its report said.
Referrals to Ceop increased by 181% between April last year and March this year.
And its report cited a study of almost 100 case studies from 34 police forces, which found offenders who both possessed child abuse images and attacked [sic] children were "almost exclusively white males", with most aged between 19 and 45.
'Terrible trade'
The report said that those not in work, and possibly therefore those with high levels of internet usage, those working in schools or care work, and those in manual and manufacturing jobs made up most of the sample.
"This point in time has the potential to be a golden age for child protection [sic], but the evolution of technology is likely to make the internet an increasingly difficult place to investigate," the report added.
"The predicted dramatic rise in work volumes will require a fresh look at policing priorities and the resources allocated to this area of policing. [there is the rub]"
Jon Brown, head of the NSPCC's sexual abuse programme, said: "This supports research the NSPCC carried out last year, which revealed one in three of those convicted of possessing child abuse images has also committed other serious sexual offences against children." [oh really?]
"It's a very worrying situation and more research is needed on the most effective punishment and treatment of offenders caught viewing child abuse pictures.
"Trying to stop the terrible trade [sic] in these images is obviously a huge task. But it mustn't be seen in isolation. It's part of a much bigger sexual abuse problem."
Meanwhile, England's Deputy Children's Commissioner Sue Berelowitz has told the Commons Home Affairs Committee that girls as young as 11 were being expected to perform sex acts on "line-ups of boys", she said. The committee promised an inquiry into the claims."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18428289
Thursday 14 June 2012
A Picture of Abuse
"UK national centre for child protection to publish new report on child abuse image possession offenders and the direct risk [sic] they pose to children.
There is a link between viewing abuse images and contact sexual abuse of children [well, of course there is 'a link', to claim otherwise would be ridiculous; but, that is not your little game, is it Peter?]
Opportunity and access to children is a significant indicator of risk [so, it is easier to eat the chocolate, if the chocolate is present? - OK]
More police resources should be directed towards ‘image-only’ offences {ah, now we see ... any thoughts on who could do it?]"
http://ceop.police.uk/Media-Centre/Press-releases/2012/A-Picture-of-Abuse/
14 June 2012
A Picture of Abuse
"CEOP's thematic assessment of the risk of contact child sexual abuse posed by those who possess indecent images of children."
http://ceop.police.uk/Documents/ceopdocs/CEOP%20IIOCTA%20Executive%20Summary.pdf
27 July 2011
Child sexual abuse images convictions
"One in three of those convicted of possessing child abuse images has also committed other serious sex offences against children the NSPCC reveals today (27 July 2011).
Some of these have been found guilty of indecent assault, gross indecency, grooming and inciting children to carry out sex acts on webcams.
The details are revealed in a review of 284 UK court cases over a six month period last year involving those found guilty of possessing indecent images.(1) In 98 of these cases the offenders had also been grooming children or had committed sex assaults on under 16s.
In total, we found 284 court cases reported in the media which resulted in a conviction for child abuse images offences. In a third of cases (98), the offender had also been found guilty of grooming children or had committed sexual assaults on children - either previously or in same court case."
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/news-and-views/media-centre/press-releases/2011/11-07-27-child-sexual-abuse-images-convictions/11-07-27-child-sexual-abuse-images-convictions_wdn83516.html
Re: CEOP Report – A Picture of Abuse http://ceop.police.uk/Media-Centre/Press-releases/2012/A-Picture-of-Abuse/
"Paedophile’s view indecent images of children and the sexual abuse of children and animals as ‘victimless crimes’ and often claim that they need to view these images as a kind of methadone to keep them off the real stuff – when we have always known that nothing could be further from the truth. [how do you know that?]
I am so glad to see senior child protectors like CEOP working to explode some of the many myths paedophiles have put about over the years about their unspeakable crimes against children. [such as?]
Speaking as a victim of this crime [evidence?] and as an awarded victims advocate [sic] for victims of this crime, I can confirm that paedophiles themselves will admit that viewing indecent images of children is for them at the very least, a gateway crime to more ‘hands on’ offending and at best, simply allows them to maintain their inhuman urges until they can get their hands on the real thing and even helps them to network their way to the real thing. [you make many claims, with no evidence ... do you ever intend to provide any? Do you need even more cash to help you do so?]
We hope that this insightful and deeply disturbing report, along with the others released this week, will now inspire Mr Cameron to release some much needed and urgent funding [ah, we see] for the child protectors and victim advocates.
By Shy Keenan [tells readers all they need to know] from www.thephoenixpost.com"
http://www.tpcauk.com/
http://www.facebook.com/thephoenixpostuk
Thursday 14 June 2012 00.05 BST
Online child abuse images 'becoming more extreme, sadistic and violent'
"The children in these images are getting younger and the offences committed against them are getting more serious and extreme," said Andy Baker, deputy chief executive of the CEOP Centre. "Not only has a child been abused when these images were taken but they are being abused again each time that image is viewed."
"Donald Findlater, of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a charity dedicated to preventing child sexual abuse, said: "There is no doubt that the possession of indecent images of children is a growing problem. But our responses need to include prevention of this behaviour and we need to distinguish those at low risk of contact abuse - probably the majority - from the minority who are high risk. Children and families deserve a full and balanced analysis of this problem and of the effective responses to it.""
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jun/14/child-abuse-images-more-violent
Tuesday 19 June 2012
Police crack-down on net paedophiles [sic]
"But it is only the latest example of the work of the Sussex POLIT [sic] which was first established in July 2008. It acts as the specific point of contact for all suspected paedophile on-line offences [sic] in the county.
The team consists of eight detectives who progress the intelligence and execute the warrants against suspected offenders. Much of the intelligence comes from CEOP and law enforcement agencies world-wide, but they also receive information from other forces and agencies in the UK, and from local people.
Detective Superintendent Nev Kemp said; “This area of policing is particularly difficult not only due to the nature of the images officers have to view, but also to the devious electronic methods the criminals use to try to conceal their offending across the web.
“Since its creation the team has dealt with over 400 cases. On average we have at any one time around 60 active cases, 40 suspects on bail or charged, and 20 initial referrals under intelligence progression prior to any arrest.
“We have viewed and removed from circulation millions of images, all deeply offensive and insulting to children, and many of them of the most sickening type.
“In doing this we have helped the world-wide fight against this evil trade, and have also helped safeguard thousands of children not only in Sussex but worldwide. Most of the offenders circulate and re-circulate images they have found elsewhere, and we must never forget that every such image is by definition [sic] an image of a child being abused and its very existence helps fuel the demand [sic]. In addition some others have also committed specific offences against children themselves, either by inciting them to commit indecent acts on-line or by direct physical contact.
“This is a continual battle against the abusers but it is also an area of policing where there is now a really close co-operation with law enforcement across the country and across the world. Given that increasing level of co-operation, and with public support and information, we are confident that we can continue to make inroads on the problem. Offenders need to know that we will continue to target them and they can expect a knock on the door at any time."
http://www.ryeandbattleobserver.co.uk/news/local-news/police-crack-down-on-net-paedophiles-1-3966926
*****
Comment:
CEOP are fighting for their very existence, in real terms ... hence, the OCC (England) stepping up to inflate any claim CEOP requires (recent HO select committee).
The OSC will happily respond to these claims, soon.
Full analysis to follow, but, for now ...
"Every such study I have read, including this one, fails to address the fundamental question, the one prompted by para 2 of this report. Namely: If public access to indecent images of children has risen so dramatically (the CEOP report claims a factor of at least 1,000), and if viewing IIOCs disposes people to contact offences, why is there no evidence of a corresponding increase in contact offences?
All such reports - again including this one - try to dodge the point by claiming that so much contact abuse goes unreported that any variation doesn't show in the reported figures. That's just another way of saying "We have no idea what the numbers are so we can't draw any useful conclusions at all". But you can't write a 200-page report, or get a 20 per cent budget increase, out of that, although this report comes close to admitting it at times."
"This is not about increases in budgets, it's about controlling the internet. The government is shit scared of the internet and the power it wields anonymously and is determined to apply censorship in one form or another. Oh, they can dress it up in nice sounding phrases, e.g. the new snooping bill: "We won't have the power to read the contents", but those powers will simply be put on the back burner until the population has got used to the current round of legislation."
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/uk.legal/LY_XZPMpUeY
The Effects of Child Pornography
http://newgon.com/wiki/Research:_Child_Pornography
No link between child porn and sexual abuse
http://xuk.obu-investigators.com/library/72/nolink.htm
*****
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Hysteria Corner
Hysteria Alpha
'Children as young as 11 are performing sex acts on rows of boys as online porn turns children into sex attackers,' ministers are warned in shocking report
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2158455/Online-porn-turning-children-sex-attackers-Young-act-depraved-scenes-web-says-Deputy-Childrens-Commissioner.html#ixzz1xh79k3vC
There isn’t a town, village or hamlet in which children are not being sexually exploited
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4369516/There-isnt-a-town-village-or-hamlet-in-which-children-are-not-being-sexually-exploited-MPs-are-told-thousands-of-girls-are-being-raped-by-gangs-across-the-whole-of-Britain.html
Paedos [sic] purge
"PAEDOS [sic] are escaping justice [sic] because police cannot access [sic] their sick [sic] emails to other child abusers [sic], a top cop has warned.
Peter Davies — boss of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection unit — urged MPs to back new laws to target perverts.
Home Secretary Theresa May will unveil a draft bill tomorrow which would make sure internet providers keep basic “phone bill-style” data on all emails.
Mr Davies said: “This will help us protect children and pursue abusers.”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4369516/There-isnt-a-town-village-or-hamlet-in-which-children-are-not-being-sexually-exploited-MPs-are-told-thousands-of-girls-are-being-raped-by-gangs-across-the-whole-of-Britain.html
MPs to investigate deputy children's commissioner's claims
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18422204
"Home Affairs - Monday 11 June 2012
Subject: The work of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
Witness(es): Jim Taylor, Chief Executive, and Councillor Colin Lambert, Leader, Rochdale Council; Chief Constable Peter Fahy and Detective Chief Superintendent Mary Doyle, Greater Manchester Police; Peter Davies, Chief Executive, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP); Sue Berelowitz, Deputy Children’s Commissioner Location: Room 15, Palace of Westminster"
http://services.parliament.uk/calendar/#!/calendar/Commons/SelectCommittee/2012/6/11/week.html
Last updated: June 14th, 2012
'Sadistic child abuse' is rife, is it? Haven't we heard that hysterical claim before?
"In each of these unhinged panics, innocent people were arrested and families were ripped apart, as social workers who believed their own made-up horror stories invaded homes across Britain. And now Ms Berelowitz, the new Pervert-Finder General, wants us to believe that sadists lurk in every "town, village and hamlet" and that the government ought to do something about it. It is the latter bit we should really be worried about. Are these people even aware of how much they sound like the cranky overseers of the Salem witch trials? History tells us that when figures in authority insist that sadists and weirdos and witches are stalking the land and gobbling up our children, we should simply refuse to believe them."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100165297/sadistic-child-abuse-is-rife-is-it-havent-we-heard-that-hysterical-claim-before/
The Children's Commissioner for England
"Maggie Atkinson is the Children's Commissioner for England. The Commissioner and her team make sure that adults in charge listen to children and young people.
The role of the Children's Commissioner was created by the Children Act 2004 and is there to promote the views of children and young people from birth to 18 (up to 21 for young people in care or with learning difficulties)."
http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/info/about_us
25 May 2012
Highlighting concerns, acting together and concentrating on children
"Finally, I wanted to remind you today (Friday 25th May) is International Missing Children's Day. Sue Berelowitz, Deputy Children's Commissioner attended a reception earlier this week at 10 Downing Street hosted by the Rt Hon, Theresa May MP, Home Secretary to highlight the day. In response to the Government's Missing Children and Adults Strategy today the charity Missing People is launching 116 000 as the number for advice, support, help and options if you, or someone you care about goes missing."
http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/content/blog/content_412
"Sue Berelowitz, Deputy Children’s Commissioner for England
Sue Berelowitz has worked across a broad spectrum of local authority children’s services ranging from early years provision to safeguarding for over thirty years as a speech and language therapist, social worker and senior manager. In 2008
Sue was appointed Deputy Children’s Commissioner and Chief Executive of the Office of the Children’s Commissioner.
She was previously Director of Business Development for Adults and Children’s Services in West Sussex County Council. As Deputy Children’s Commissioner, she engages strategically with children and young people across the country and those working with and for them, to promote their view and interests and seek to ensure that every child achieves their rights under the UNCRC.
Areas of particular interest for Sue include mental health, youth justice, safeguarding and family court proceedings."
http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/force_download.php?fp=%2Fclient_assets%2Fcp%2Fpublication%2F537%2FCSEGG_Panel_Members.pdf
On The OCCs
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
A lesson in how not to abolish a quango
"Here, then, is an object lesson in how not to abolish a quango. Instead of disposing of a superfluous, largely powerless and discredited body, the government has given it a new lease of life, new powers and a stronger voice to criticise government. Not only has the coalition lost an opportunity to save the taxpayer £3million pa, it has - whilst almost certainly ensuring that the quango's budget will continue to grow - also generated additional, unquantified, cost to taxpayers by giving the OCC power to make new demands on the public sector in response to its findings."
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thecolumnists/2012/05/jill-kirby-a-lesson-in-how-not-to-abolish-a-quango.html
17 May 2012 4:40 PM
Michael Gove is a brave and brilliant man, but handing head teachers the freedom to set staff pay is pointless
"Maybe Mr Gove's decision to expand, not close, that most useless and hubristic of quangos, the Office of the Children’s Commissioner, was another such. As Jill Kirby asked in her incisive blog on Conservative Home yesterday, “Would Michael Gove, if acting alone, have appointed John Dunford (a vocal opponent of free schools) or succumbed so readily to the “children's rights” lobby? Wouldn't sheer common sense have informed him of the fallacy of assuming that one man (or woman) should have the power to speak for 11 million children?”"
http://gyngellblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012/05/michael-gove-is-a-brave-and-brilliant-man-but-handing-head-teachers-the-freedom-to-set-staff-pay-is-.html
Friday, 4 May 2012
"Same Horse - Different Jockey"
"I do feel that a better candidate for Board 'Chair' than Ms Battle whose experience was gained whilst working for one of the most useless quangos, Childrens Commissioner for Wales, could have been found at Office Angels. Her statement is as empty and meaningless as any I have heard from someone chosen to Chair an organisation with a £1bn budget. Let's give her the benefit of the doubt as she probably makes an excellent 'cuppa', even though she will probably will be word perfect in every platitude of her longer-serving colleagues."
http://twoflewover.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/same-horse-different-jockey.html
Hysteria Beta
13.06.2012
Habbo and Skout scandals raise question of teenagers’ safety online
"Some users have been frustrated by this development, labelling the Channel 4 report biased and the claims exaggerated. Skout will undoubtedly undergo similar backlash from disgruntled teens who want their service back."
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/27743-habbo-and-skout-scandals/
Children's website Habbo Hotel 'puts its 250m users at risk because it has few defences against paedophiles [sic]'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2158301/Habbo-Hotel-childrens-website-defences-paedophiles.html#ixzz1xh7IlQId
Habbo Hotel Suspends Chat Function Following Channel 4’s Paedophile [sic] Investigation
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/351746/20120613/habbo-hotel-suspends-chat-paedophiles-online-investigation.htm
How Habbo Hotel Proves That Human Moderators Cannot Stop Online Sex Predators
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/habbo-hotel-proves-human-moderators-160100871.html
Habbo children's website is 'paedophile [sic] haven'
http://www.theweek.co.uk/crime/47395/habbo-childrens-website-paedophile-haven
Why I had cyber sex with strangers on Habbo Hotel - aged 13
http://www.channel4.com/news/why-i-had-cyber-sex-with-strangers-on-habbo-hotel-aged-13
Habbo Hotel to 'unmute' chat so users can show they love it
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/18/habbo_great_unmute/
Maeve Dineen: Reputations are easily damaged, as the ESRI is finding out
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/maeve-dineen-reputations-are-easily-damaged-as-the-esri-is-finding-out-3140765.html
Habbo Hotel revenue at 75 per cent of pre-scandal levels
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-08-10-habbo-hotel-revenue-at-75-per-cent-of-pre-scandal-levels
What is happening in Habbo Hotel?
http://www.channel4.com/news/what-is-happening-in-habbo-hotel
*****
Comment:
Did the kids choose to obtain their 'furni' at Habbo and then 'Get Jiggy'? - Did you ask them, listen to them and assist them in their rights?
It is that time of the year, for the UNCRC and the CPI.
*****
Addendum (5/7/2012)
Wednesday 4 July 2012 18.44 BST
Disney plans £3m internet safety campaign around Club Penguin
"Initiative follows high-profile controversy around rival virtual world Habbo Hotel
Club Penguin is Disney's flagship virtual world for children
Disney is launching internet safety campaigns targeting 100m children and parents in Europe, the Middle East and Africa based on its Club Penguin virtual world, capitalising on the recent paedophile [sic] scandal surrounding rival Habbo Hotel."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2012/jul/04/disney-club-penguin-child-safety
'Children as young as 11 are performing sex acts on rows of boys as online porn turns children into sex attackers,' ministers are warned in shocking report
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2158455/Online-porn-turning-children-sex-attackers-Young-act-depraved-scenes-web-says-Deputy-Childrens-Commissioner.html#ixzz1xh79k3vC
There isn’t a town, village or hamlet in which children are not being sexually exploited
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4369516/There-isnt-a-town-village-or-hamlet-in-which-children-are-not-being-sexually-exploited-MPs-are-told-thousands-of-girls-are-being-raped-by-gangs-across-the-whole-of-Britain.html
Paedos [sic] purge
"PAEDOS [sic] are escaping justice [sic] because police cannot access [sic] their sick [sic] emails to other child abusers [sic], a top cop has warned.
Peter Davies — boss of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection unit — urged MPs to back new laws to target perverts.
Home Secretary Theresa May will unveil a draft bill tomorrow which would make sure internet providers keep basic “phone bill-style” data on all emails.
Mr Davies said: “This will help us protect children and pursue abusers.”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4369516/There-isnt-a-town-village-or-hamlet-in-which-children-are-not-being-sexually-exploited-MPs-are-told-thousands-of-girls-are-being-raped-by-gangs-across-the-whole-of-Britain.html
MPs to investigate deputy children's commissioner's claims
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18422204
"Home Affairs - Monday 11 June 2012
Subject: The work of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
Witness(es): Jim Taylor, Chief Executive, and Councillor Colin Lambert, Leader, Rochdale Council; Chief Constable Peter Fahy and Detective Chief Superintendent Mary Doyle, Greater Manchester Police; Peter Davies, Chief Executive, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP); Sue Berelowitz, Deputy Children’s Commissioner Location: Room 15, Palace of Westminster"
http://services.parliament.uk/calendar/#!/calendar/Commons/SelectCommittee/2012/6/11/week.html
Last updated: June 14th, 2012
'Sadistic child abuse' is rife, is it? Haven't we heard that hysterical claim before?
"In each of these unhinged panics, innocent people were arrested and families were ripped apart, as social workers who believed their own made-up horror stories invaded homes across Britain. And now Ms Berelowitz, the new Pervert-Finder General, wants us to believe that sadists lurk in every "town, village and hamlet" and that the government ought to do something about it. It is the latter bit we should really be worried about. Are these people even aware of how much they sound like the cranky overseers of the Salem witch trials? History tells us that when figures in authority insist that sadists and weirdos and witches are stalking the land and gobbling up our children, we should simply refuse to believe them."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100165297/sadistic-child-abuse-is-rife-is-it-havent-we-heard-that-hysterical-claim-before/
The Children's Commissioner for England
"Maggie Atkinson is the Children's Commissioner for England. The Commissioner and her team make sure that adults in charge listen to children and young people.
The role of the Children's Commissioner was created by the Children Act 2004 and is there to promote the views of children and young people from birth to 18 (up to 21 for young people in care or with learning difficulties)."
http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/info/about_us
25 May 2012
Highlighting concerns, acting together and concentrating on children
"Finally, I wanted to remind you today (Friday 25th May) is International Missing Children's Day. Sue Berelowitz, Deputy Children's Commissioner attended a reception earlier this week at 10 Downing Street hosted by the Rt Hon, Theresa May MP, Home Secretary to highlight the day. In response to the Government's Missing Children and Adults Strategy today the charity Missing People is launching 116 000 as the number for advice, support, help and options if you, or someone you care about goes missing."
http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/content/blog/content_412
"Sue Berelowitz, Deputy Children’s Commissioner for England
Sue Berelowitz has worked across a broad spectrum of local authority children’s services ranging from early years provision to safeguarding for over thirty years as a speech and language therapist, social worker and senior manager. In 2008
Sue was appointed Deputy Children’s Commissioner and Chief Executive of the Office of the Children’s Commissioner.
She was previously Director of Business Development for Adults and Children’s Services in West Sussex County Council. As Deputy Children’s Commissioner, she engages strategically with children and young people across the country and those working with and for them, to promote their view and interests and seek to ensure that every child achieves their rights under the UNCRC.
Areas of particular interest for Sue include mental health, youth justice, safeguarding and family court proceedings."
http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/force_download.php?fp=%2Fclient_assets%2Fcp%2Fpublication%2F537%2FCSEGG_Panel_Members.pdf
On The OCCs
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
A lesson in how not to abolish a quango
"Here, then, is an object lesson in how not to abolish a quango. Instead of disposing of a superfluous, largely powerless and discredited body, the government has given it a new lease of life, new powers and a stronger voice to criticise government. Not only has the coalition lost an opportunity to save the taxpayer £3million pa, it has - whilst almost certainly ensuring that the quango's budget will continue to grow - also generated additional, unquantified, cost to taxpayers by giving the OCC power to make new demands on the public sector in response to its findings."
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thecolumnists/2012/05/jill-kirby-a-lesson-in-how-not-to-abolish-a-quango.html
17 May 2012 4:40 PM
Michael Gove is a brave and brilliant man, but handing head teachers the freedom to set staff pay is pointless
"Maybe Mr Gove's decision to expand, not close, that most useless and hubristic of quangos, the Office of the Children’s Commissioner, was another such. As Jill Kirby asked in her incisive blog on Conservative Home yesterday, “Would Michael Gove, if acting alone, have appointed John Dunford (a vocal opponent of free schools) or succumbed so readily to the “children's rights” lobby? Wouldn't sheer common sense have informed him of the fallacy of assuming that one man (or woman) should have the power to speak for 11 million children?”"
http://gyngellblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012/05/michael-gove-is-a-brave-and-brilliant-man-but-handing-head-teachers-the-freedom-to-set-staff-pay-is-.html
Friday, 4 May 2012
"Same Horse - Different Jockey"
"I do feel that a better candidate for Board 'Chair' than Ms Battle whose experience was gained whilst working for one of the most useless quangos, Childrens Commissioner for Wales, could have been found at Office Angels. Her statement is as empty and meaningless as any I have heard from someone chosen to Chair an organisation with a £1bn budget. Let's give her the benefit of the doubt as she probably makes an excellent 'cuppa', even though she will probably will be word perfect in every platitude of her longer-serving colleagues."
http://twoflewover.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/same-horse-different-jockey.html
Hysteria Beta
13.06.2012
Habbo and Skout scandals raise question of teenagers’ safety online
"Some users have been frustrated by this development, labelling the Channel 4 report biased and the claims exaggerated. Skout will undoubtedly undergo similar backlash from disgruntled teens who want their service back."
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/27743-habbo-and-skout-scandals/
Children's website Habbo Hotel 'puts its 250m users at risk because it has few defences against paedophiles [sic]'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2158301/Habbo-Hotel-childrens-website-defences-paedophiles.html#ixzz1xh7IlQId
Habbo Hotel Suspends Chat Function Following Channel 4’s Paedophile [sic] Investigation
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/351746/20120613/habbo-hotel-suspends-chat-paedophiles-online-investigation.htm
How Habbo Hotel Proves That Human Moderators Cannot Stop Online Sex Predators
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/habbo-hotel-proves-human-moderators-160100871.html
Habbo children's website is 'paedophile [sic] haven'
http://www.theweek.co.uk/crime/47395/habbo-childrens-website-paedophile-haven
Why I had cyber sex with strangers on Habbo Hotel - aged 13
http://www.channel4.com/news/why-i-had-cyber-sex-with-strangers-on-habbo-hotel-aged-13
Habbo Hotel to 'unmute' chat so users can show they love it
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/18/habbo_great_unmute/
Maeve Dineen: Reputations are easily damaged, as the ESRI is finding out
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/maeve-dineen-reputations-are-easily-damaged-as-the-esri-is-finding-out-3140765.html
Habbo Hotel revenue at 75 per cent of pre-scandal levels
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-08-10-habbo-hotel-revenue-at-75-per-cent-of-pre-scandal-levels
What is happening in Habbo Hotel?
http://www.channel4.com/news/what-is-happening-in-habbo-hotel
*****
Comment:
Did the kids choose to obtain their 'furni' at Habbo and then 'Get Jiggy'? - Did you ask them, listen to them and assist them in their rights?
It is that time of the year, for the UNCRC and the CPI.
*****
Addendum (5/7/2012)
Wednesday 4 July 2012 18.44 BST
Disney plans £3m internet safety campaign around Club Penguin
"Initiative follows high-profile controversy around rival virtual world Habbo Hotel
Club Penguin is Disney's flagship virtual world for children
Disney is launching internet safety campaigns targeting 100m children and parents in Europe, the Middle East and Africa based on its Club Penguin virtual world, capitalising on the recent paedophile [sic] scandal surrounding rival Habbo Hotel."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2012/jul/04/disney-club-penguin-child-safety
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