2005-10-01
National Database To Help Police Protect Children; Computer Tracking System Shares Info On Child Porn, Luring
Ten police forces across Canada have joined a national initiative to combat child pornography over the Internet. The child exploitation tracking system (CETS) was launched earlier this year by the Toronto Police Service, RCMP and Microsoft Canada. The system will be ready to go soon in Saskatoon.
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2005-06-26
The Star Trek connection
A surprising number of child sex abusers appear to be Trekkies. Trying to figure out what that means, however, shows how little we really know about pedophiles.
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2005-06-24
US Rules all Porn Is Child Porn
All pornography in the US is now effectively classified as child pornography, unless providers can prove the ages of everyone taking part.
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2005-05-05
Suspect Arrested for Luring Teen Online
Police say the man was surfing and looking for a Noblesville teenager to hook up with. The man thought he found a girl and went to meet her at a local store. When he got there, police were waiting.
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2005-04-05
Suspect Arrested for Luring Teen Online
(Noblesville) - Police arrested a man for trying to pick up a 13-year-old he met on line. Police say the man was surfing and looking for a Noblesville teenager to hook up with. The man thought he found a girl and went to meet her at a local store. When he got there, police were waiting.
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2004-11-05
The Problem of Regulating Online Child Pornography
Many Australians have been shocked at the extent of online child pornography use in our community as indicated by Operation Auxin. In Auxin police at the Australian High Tech Crime Centre were provided with information about the use of credit cards in the names of 706 Australians to access overseas websites that offered child pornography.
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2004-10-13
Internet luring
For generations parents have ingrained in their children the time-honoured rule: "Don't talk to strangers."
But that rule has a new meaning now that people can talk to strangers all over the world via the internet.
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2004-08-26
Osan Airman Gets Jail Time, BCD for Child Porn
A senior airman who pleaded guilty to downloading child pornography was sentenced Tuesday to nine months in jail, and he got a bad-conduct discharge from the Air Force.
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2004-08-24
High Tech Bullying Can Be Emotionally Damaging
Today's young cyberbullies don't bother with face-to-face intimidation. Children everywhere have figured out that they can be far more vicious bullying through the Internet, cellphones and other high-tech mediums. And they are less likely to get caught.
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2004-04-17
Sex tourism threatens Central America's Youth: Child Prostitution: A Growing Scourge
When Nicaraguan police gingerly opened a stray piece of luggage at Managua Airport last month, fear turned to indignation. What they found were photos of children and adults engaged in explicit sexual acts. A Nicaraguan woman was arrested when she returned to claim her bag. Shot in Nicaragua and developed in multiple copies in Miami, the photos were destined for a select clientele of pedophiles throughout Central America.
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2004-02-10
Plight of Child Porn Victims; More needs to be done, says charity
MORE needs to be done to combat the growing number of young children being assaulted and their torture being broadcasted around the world via the internet and mobile phones, it was claimed today.
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2004-02-09
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Announces Alarming Trend
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children announced that reports of child sexual exploitation are at an all time high. Over the past five years reports to its CyberTipline, a congressionally mandated tipline and website for reporting these crimes, have increased 750 percent. These reports include cases of child molestation (outside of the family), child pornography, child prostitution, online enticement of children, child sex tourism, unsolicited obscene material sent to a child, and the federally mandated reports of child pornography from Internet Service Providers.
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2003-12-01
Murder of a paedophile
A paedophile found battered to death in his home could have been the victim of a vigilante attack, police said today.
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2002-08-15
The Professor and The Porn
For 26 years, Edward Samuels was a highly respected New York Law School professor. And then the tech department stumbled onto his stash of child pornography. But if you thought he’d resign, you’d be wrong. Instead, he sat back while his colleagues argued the merits of his case. Then, curiously, the techies who discovered his secret were fired.
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2002-07-22
Meet "Women's Auxiliary of NAMBLA"
Celebrating erotic relationships between women and young girls is the theme of a website called "Butterfly Kisses," which indicates the relatively unknown fact that pedophilia exists in significant numbers among females.
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2002-06-27
No Hard Data, But Plenty Of Concern About How kids React To Internet Porn
To date there has been no broad study of the question, but the psychologists ABCNEWS.com spoke to mostly agreed that their experience dealing with children in their practices indicates that boys who look at violent, raw images often develop a disrespectful attitude towards girls, while girls seem to become accepting of that kind of attitude from boys. "It gives children a very negative message about sex, that it is connected with lewdness, rather than being attached to the human body and with a loving relationship," child and family therapist and author Meri Wallace said.
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2002-01-18
Raise age of consent
Lots of information on both sides of Canada's age-of-consent debate.
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2001-03-15
Chatroom Danger: Opinion - When Online Chat Leads to The Crying Rooms
Tina Bell, a typical 12-year-old girl with a home computer, has been abused over a period of four weeks after installing Yahoo!'s Instant Messenger on the new PC her mum bought her for Christmas. Paedophiles, scouring rooms Yahoo! won’t take down or supervise, spotted Tina and subjected her to a process that is sickening to experience
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2000-01-02
Child Sex Trade Rises In Central America
The sexual exploitation of girls and boys, largely by American men, has reached alarming proportions in Central America, according to children's rights advocates who say the region is now a priority in their struggle against child prostitution and pornography.
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