Copycat of sex crime of children
This current event is the copycat of sex crime which is done by children. Disturbingly, one in four child sex offenders is children themselves.
According to the news, it says "three thousand children have sexually attacked other kids in NSW in the past five years, with a 42 percent surge in child-on-child sex crimes since 2012". And a staggering 140 attackers were younger that 11. About this issue, experts argued that online porn is the main reason of the increasing number of child criminals and warn about it. Specifically, the number has increased almost two times in 2015-2016 comparatively with 2011-2012 and the total number of children is 3005 in the past five years.
As reported by the news, police warned "yesterday perverts are using the internet to groom children, who then carry out copycat attacks on friends, siblings and classmates.And the perverts were “grooming’’ children with online porn." The easy exposure and access to the internet through children's smartphones or laptops are making it able to access adult material also, it can be communicated with the potential offenders.
The police said, “if a child has unrestricted and unsupervised access to the internet, it provides an opportunity for an offender to groom them for the purposes of contact offences or to obtain child pornography.”
In this current event, not only the easy access of children to the adult material is dangerous, but also copycat sex crime of the porno is an important issue to focus on us. Many young children mimic or learn adult's appearance and behavior. Following with this, crime can also be imitated by children. For this reason, the limitation and control of using media to children are needed. By the increasing of source and material in the media and the usage of media, children are getting easier to approach with media and learn from the media.
As you can see in this case, by using and exposing media(smartphone, tablet, video or movie) children can learn it and they are imitating the activity in reality. In order to prevent this situation, control of children's media using is needed.
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