Survey shows teens involved in child porn
New figures showing scale of involvement of young people in child porn trade shocks campaigners
15 January 2005
Anti-child porn campaigners are disturbed at new figures showing the scale of involvement of young people in the trade.
An Internal Affairs study has found people aged 15 to 20 are the single biggest purveyors of child pornography.
Spokeswoman for the group Stop Demand, Denise Ritchie, says unfortunately it is not a new trend and for the last few years young men have been the largest demographic caught.
Ms Ritchie says many of them have tens of thousands of explicit images in their possession.
Denise Ritchie says some young men do not comprehend the harm child porn is doing.
She is pointing the finger at an Internet-savvy population for the high number of teenage boys viewing the disturbing images.
Ms Ritchie says many of these young men have tens of thousands explicit images saved on their computers and their high demand is increasing the vulgarity of the porn scenes.
She says ten years ago child porn photos were usually just of naked children but now images of babies being raped are readily available.
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