“Herod, out of greed and lust for power, organized the slaughter of innocents. Today, the intent of kid crimes is besides to satisfy various lusts, but in another forms, frequently repugnant. Today, trafficking in children for sexual purposes is simply a powerful profit. This criminal business involves kid pornography, which is widely distributed in the digital age. Tens of millions of specified materials go to the network worldwide each year," says Hubert Kowalski in the weekly magazine “Gazeta Polska”.
The publicist cites shocking data from the global Labour Organisation, which shows that 35–40 million people worldwide live in captivity. “The proceeds of slavery scope up to $150 billion a year. Today, the number of slaves is highest in history, which is besides higher than erstwhile slavery was legal," we read.
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), more than 1 in 3 victims of trafficking in human beings are a child, and in the European Union, 1 in 4 victims. However, in Africa, Central America or the Caribbean, children make up most of the victims.
But that is not all. "The fresh York Times" reported that in 2018, more than 45 million photos and films were reported depicting kid sexual harassment. "In 1998, there were 3,000 applications, a decade later there were 100,000 of them, and in 2014 their number exceeded 1 million", says the publicist to supply data for 2017 at the end, then reported twice as much of this kind of content as in 2018. How many are there today? How many have not been detected or reported?
Criminal groups can usage encryption techniques and a hidden condition of net resources like dark web. But they inactive usage legal tools. OnlyFans has gained quite a few popularity in Poland, through which it is possible to share paid sexual content. It became an online prostitution tool. In 2023, he gained gross of $6.6 billion. The portal was accused of insufficient care to guarantee that pornographic content did not scope children. (...) In July 2024 Reuters published his investigation based on the files of the American police, which indicates that hundreds of films and pictures of a sexual nature appeared on the portal with minors, from young children to teenagers," writes the author “Gazeta Polskiej”.
Kowalski recalls that pornography carries a number of risks for children and facilitates the actions of paedophiles. "Showing pornographic content to children increases the hazard of being molested. Pornography has become an crucial tool in the process of seducing children online, gaining the child's trust for later sexual exploitation (grooming). So pedophiles usage pornography to tame victims. The study of the global Centre of Missing&Exploited Children stated that criminals are utilizing pornography to teach children masturbation, posing for photos, oral sex and another sexual activities," he stresses.
"According to NASK's 2022 study " Teenagers towards digital pornography", the average age in which children first encounter pornographic content is only 11 years. Only 1 in 3 teenagers doesn't go for pornography. 40.5 percent of children aged 12-14 years are curious in specified materials. all 3rd kid hits sex content on the net accidentally. Experts point out that the net is gradually being utilized by younger and younger children, and as a result, they can find dangerous content and are besides exposed to pedophiles," concludes Hubert Kowalski.
Source: magazine “Gazeta Polska”
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