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Internet phones add to child porn risk Charity highlights rise in sickening trade
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Belfast Telegraph
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January 12, 2004
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CHILD pornography crimes have rocketed 1,500% since 1988 - and an
avalanche of more porn could be unleashed by new Internet mobile
phones, a report out today warned.
The massive rise in child porn offences is mainly due to the
increase in use of the Internet, according to the report from
children's charity NCH.
And now the launch of mobile phones which can access the internet
will make the sickening trade even more widespread and difficult to
combat, experts fear.
Child welfare professionals are worried the new phones will be
used by paedophiles to access child sex sites, take pictures of sex
with children and trade in vile images of abuse.
It will make it very difficult to trace paedophiles ...