If you are concerned about online behaviour that involves
sexual exploitation of a child you can report it to the Australian Federal Police
Online Child Sex Exploitation Team - OCSET.
OCSET works with State and Territory police and international
law enforcement agencies to investigate online child sex exploitation which occurs
using telecommunications services, such as internet or mobile phones.
Offences include accessing, sending or uploading child
pornography or child abuse material and online engagement (grooming or procuring)
of children under 16 years of age for sexual purposes. Investigations may also focus
on Internet sites, both within or outside of Australia, that host child pornography
and child abuse material.
To report any suspicious or inappropriate online behaviour
visit Australian Federal Police (www.afp.gov.au/contact.html) website.
If you know about a child who is in immediate
danger or risk, call 000 or contact your local police.
Please note that complaints about prohibited internet content to the Australian
Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) must be made in writing.
To help ensure that ACMA can investigate your complaint, you must set out:
- the internet address of the internet content and any other details required to access
it;
The impact of Pornography on Teenagers and
Children.
Teenagers and children get exposed to pornography through the
media, internet and reading material! Many of the adult book shops are not
policed and easy accessible to teenagers. The internet has become such a
powerful tool and teenagers and children are using it more and more. They get
the misconception that it is ok and get a warped view of what sex is all about.
Consequently they see no harm in watching porn or reading it.
But let us go even deeper and investigate. Some have been
roped into watching porn and participating in sexual acts by trusted adults
telling them it is a natural thing to do; other might have been abused or raped.
I, myself, was sexual abused and had to perform sexual acts I
did not know was not normal. One of my predators was the son of a government
official, as well as one of my brother’s best friends. In the days that I grew
up you could not speak to your parents about these things.
It resulted in me becoming promiscuous as well very
overweight.
This experience made me want to warn other parents what can
happen to their child.
These teenagers and children have lost all feeling of self
worth, and think pleasing the adult make them feel happy or they might be
frightened of the consequences. Most of these teenagers and children probably
have been sexually abused or even where exposed to incest.
The teenagers and children become sex addicted and porn
addicted as time goes on. They fantasize what they can do and often act on it.
Many of the teenagers have web cams and use them. The adult who signs on to talk
to the teenager might be the one telling them to act out certain sexual
poses or even ask them to engage in sexual acts with another teenagers or
children.
The teenagers or children are tempted with gifts and money,
often the predators are paedophiles. The teenagers or children are not aware of
this and think they are doing this for pleasure and money. Recently a major talk
host had a teenager on her show who talked about the way the paedophiles roped
him in. He met the paedophiles over the net and felt great earning such large
sums of money. He has now helped authorities to stop this misuse of the net.
They make them feel important and even encourage them to meet with them. It is
very hard for these children to resist these people and get out of these
situations.
Often the parents are not even aware of the amount of time the
teenagers or children spent on the net. If you come aware of your child is
involved in pornography and has become addicted to it, you must seek help as
soon as possible. Especially when your child becomes more than interested in
sex, even start masturbating, get help!
The only way the parent can at least control some of it, is
with a new tool – a filter, blocking certain excess to sites for them. We must
also be careful of television as many channels now show things that are
inappropriate for children to watch. Often these programs are even started at an
early time in the evening. There even have been occasions that paedophiles have
gone into third world countries and adopted children for the sole purpose of
using them as sex slaves. Child trafficking is very high in the world.
You might be surprised to know, who are involved. They could
be individuals in your daily life, even your clergy or scout master. We have
recently seen in the media that people in authority are involved in pornography
like policemen, teachers or even politicians.
To help these children and teenagers we need to get to the
root of where it started. You need to get their trust and have them opened up to
you.
There are several ways to do this:
1. You need to find out when and where it started.
2. You need to find out whom was involved.
3. You need to find out how they found the website and
who encouraged them to keep on watching.
4. You need to find out how involved they are and even if they
have met with the adults who encouraged them (paedophiles).
5. You need to find out if they sexually active and with whom.
6. You need to find them one of their own peers whom they can
trust and open up to.
7. You need to take them to see an accredited sex therapist
that deals with children.
You must be able to convince them that the person who got them
involved is the one at fault and not them! We as adults have the responsibility
to protect our children any way we can. We need to fight the access to
pornography and the exploitation of children. We must make the government aware
of the harm television programs can do to teenagers and children. For example
the rate of pregnancy under teenagers is very high, so we need to educate our
children. Keep them busy with sports, arts or have them attend a church.
Participate in their activities. Many churches have excellent youth programs,
seek one out and investigate the suitability.
Remember that these children will need help for a long time and will
need to be reassured that they are not at fault. Show them that they are loved
and secure in their own home.
To find an accredited profession therapist or counsellor you
can excess our website
www.sexaddiction.com.au.
Let us get started on helping these poor children, not only in
our own country but across the globe.