Police in Massachusetts ordered a raid on Portrays house and what they discovered was something I believed only existed in horror movies. They found a sound proofed dungeon within his basement; there they found a child-sized coffin, scalpels, butchering kits and castration tools. Portray had planned to kidnap, rape, kill and eat a child. He had used the internet as a means to talk to other pedophilia that also shared his interests in killing, raping and eating children.Portray used the alias "Long Pig" so as to protect his identity and as a "safe" way to trade child pornography tit the other pedophilia online.
Many of these photos were of children known to them. One of the men he most frequently talked to about this disgusting fantasy over Keep was Michael Earnest, during these conversations Portray would repeatedly ask Earnest to kidnap a child for him with the intent that he would immediately kill, rape and cannibalize the child.Of course we Bruits are no strangers to this threat of pedophilia, the Jimmy Seville Scandal being the most prominent in our minds at the moment as well as the horrific pedophilia ring uncovered in 2009 involving Vanessa George from the Little Tee's Nursery in Devon. George also used the internet as a means of sharing the photos of the children from her nursery being sexually abused and as a way to communicate with other members of the pedophilia ring.
All of these cases should be enough to force us to want more restrictions and safety for our children on the internet.Parents may put passwords on their laptops to stop children from gaining unwanted access to the internet or they might supervise their children when they are online, but this only goes so far. We cannot monitor our hillier all day every day and this is when other means of supervision and protection must be put into effect, the government has to do more to stop incidents like Vanessa George scandal from happening again and to stop our children from being exposed to these pedophilia.The lack of security on the internet can be shown through its ease of access, anyone can use the internet, and anyone can type in any web address and use it in ways that they deem fit. Take Backbone for example, they have attempted to reduce the amount of younger children from accessing their Bessie by creating a minimum access age.
Although this deters the certain few younger children from creating an account, those really interested in it can simply just lie about their age and then they have access to a whole range of adult related topics and are immediately exposed to the dangers of online pedophilia.The same can be said for the amount of pornographic websites that our children can scroll through with worrying ease. Most of these sites have a warning page, describing the content as for those aged eighteen and over, however again with the click of a button r the input of a false birthday our children are exposed to a warped and frankly disgusting view on relationships and sex. This has to stop. We have to protect innocent minds the dangers that the internet poses.
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre over that past seven years have reduced the total amount of known child abuse content hosted in the UK from 18% of the global total to less than 1% today, however this is still 1% too much. The biggest step forward for creating more online security for children in the I-J was taken by David Cameron on the 22nd f July 2013 with his crack down on the amount of online pornography and the increase in protection for children online.In his speech he talked of what we need to do to make things more secure so as to protect our children from being exposed to filth and pedophilia. The Prime Minister made it very clear that the government and those involved with the internet's usage and running is doing more and more to protect our children, he said: "Here in Britain, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are already actively engaged on a major campaign to deter people who are searching for hill abuse images.Now, I can't go into the detail about this campaign, because that might undermine its effectiveness, but I can tell you it is robust, it is hard-hitting; it is a serious deterrent to people who are looking for these images. " This is a warning to all those who abuse the power of the internet.
Tackling the online threat is clearly no longer a taboo subject, we are not afraid to make it safer, we are no longer tolerant of the dark side of the internet and we will protect our children.
