online child protection issues/news - 19 January

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Hi all

Some news stories that have come out of the recent lot of
arrests re child porn online, but in the main dealing with
the issues rather than the specific arrests. So for those
this issue is of interest, here is a round-up of stories
from The Independent, The Observer/Guardian, BBC, The
Economist.

David

Paedophiles: Tightening the net
Every website you visit, every payment you make, every
e-mail you send is open to surveillance. Fears over child
pornography and terrorism have ended the ideal of a free
and secure internet.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=370694

Paedophiles: Who are they?
Every age has its monsters, and ours is the paedophile. But
how much do we really know about them? How should they be
policed and punished? And how can we protect our children
from them?

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=370695

Paedophiles: The Police Hunt
A pop star, a judge, a TV personality, and hundreds of
other men have been questioned so far. Further arrests are
expected. Sophie Goodchild traces two parallel inquiries
into the sexual abuse of children.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=370719

Paedophile alert over spy camera mobiles
Mobile phones are to be banned from swimming pools,
changing rooms, public toilets and creches because of fears
that paedophiles will roam them with the new generation of
camera-equipped handsets to take secret photographs of
naked and half-dressed children.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/uk_news/story/0,6903,877812,00.html

Don't look now
In the sordid world of child abuse, fantasy and reality are
perilously intertwined 

http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,877634,00.html

Inside the paedophiles’ web
Bob Long has been following Operation Ore, the
international investigation into child porn. He is shocked
by an evil in everyday clothing. 
Today was a pretty average work day. My alarm went off at
3am. By 4.30 I was in a London police station waiting to be
briefed on the pre-dawn raids soon to start in a suburban
street. By 5.30 two officers with a battering ram had made
light work of the smart front door and detectives had
arrested the householder, still in his pyjamas and trying
to find his glasses. One minute he had been peacefully
asleep with his wife, the next his life was over.  

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-547051,00.html


Buried by a pile of porn
THIS group is for people who love kids. You can post any
type of messages you like or any type of pics and vids you
like too.” The thousands of men who responded to this
invitation to join Candyman, a Yahoo membership site, are
now the subjects of the largest-ever worldwide criminal
investigation into paedophilia.

http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1536429

Operation Ore: Can the UK cope?
The UK's largest ever police hunt against internet
paedophiles - Operation Ore - has resulted in about 1,300
arrests out of a list of 6,000 suspects, but could be
putting a strain on the criminal justice system.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2652465.stm

Teacher resigns after child porn arrest
A teacher at an independent prep school in West Sussex has
resigned after being arrested as part of an international
crackdown on internet child porn.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2660645.stm

Prison chief arrested in porn inquiry
A deputy prison governor has been arrested as part of an
investigation into child pornography on the Internet.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2660225.stm

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