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Straw makes Internet grooming an election issue
News Eight weeks ago, Home Office ministers said existing laws were satisfactory to deal with Internet paedophiles," said Burstow. Grooming" is the technique that paedophiles use on the Internet to entice children into sexual activity.
[May 21, 2001, 13:37]
Commercial child porn ring bust leads to 100 arrests
News The set-up was relatively unusual for a paedophile ring -- adult obscene material is often sold for profit, but paedophiles usually operate as a club," said Peter Sommer, a research fellow at the London School of Economics.
[August 9, 2001, 13:00]
2000 Roundup: The dangers of chatrooms exposed
News Within days, criminal experts began calling for a revision of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 that prevents police officers in Britain from acting as "agent provocateurs" and covertly trapping paedophiles in chatrooms.
[December 31, 2000, 6:08]
Net paedophile gets five years
News Reynolds believes chat rooms are the prime target for paedophiles as they allow children to engage in live conversation with strangers, potentially leading to tragic meetings. Observers say the case demonstrates that the UK possesses legislation to...
[October 24, 2000, 14:49]
Net abductor's sentencing delayed
News British courts have been inundated in recent months with cases of paedophiles abusing Internet chatrooms for "grooming" children into offline meetings, or trading child pornography over the Web. What are the risks of paedophiles approaching...
[April 10, 2001, 8:39]
Chatroom Danger: Flurry of Net paedophile cases hit Britain
News Wonderland paedophiles are sentenced What are the risks of paedophiles approaching my children through Yahoo! A flurry of British Net paedophile cases this year has exposed the Internet as an underground network of paedophile rings, where...
[March 15, 2001, 16:46]
AOL's immunity from child porn to set UK precedent
News Richard Lee Russel, a schoolteacher from West Palm Beach suburb, admitted to using AOL for meeting other paedophiles, and pleaded guilty to federal charges for the trading of child pornography in 1995.
[March 9, 2001, 14:45]
British Web chat doubles
News Risk assessment studies have found teenage girls between the ages of 13 and 17 to be the most likely targets of online enticement by Internet paedophiles. What are the risks of paedophiles approaching my children through Yahoo!
[March 23, 2001, 15:15]
Safe Surfing test proposed to protect kids
News Child protection experts want filters to remain and argue that the IPPR test must teach children how to deal with the possibility of meeting paedophiles in chatrooms. Chris Thatcher, past president of the National Association of Head Teachers...
[January 30, 2001, 15:36]
Yahoo! shows tougher line on piracy than child porn
News has not been as rapid to respond to complaints about chatrooms used by paedophiles. A forthcoming report by the Internet Crime Forum purports that "around 20 percent of [UK] Internet chatroom-using kids have been approached by paedophiles and other...
[March 7, 2001, 13:27]
FBI nets Scottish Web paedophile
News In America, federal law enables FBI agents to enter chatrooms posing as children in order to identify and arrest paedophiles before any physical assault has taken place. At the hearing, Rodriguez rated Net paedophiles as a greater threat than...
[March 12, 2001, 11:19]
Police lack resources for paedophile hunts
News Peter Sommer, research fellow at the London School of Economics acted as an expert defence witness at the Operation Cathedral trial in January, but argues limited police resources force child protection units to focus on finding abused children...
[February 15, 2001, 9:02]
Police crack down on Net child pornographers
News She is concerned that newsgroups -- in which child porn is most prevalent -- are creating a Net army of paedophiles. Max Taylor, professor of applied psychology at the University of Cork believes between one and three new children are being abused...
[December 10, 1999, 12:49]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Hackers take on paedophiles - The Times The Times reported on the vigilante activities of clandestine hackers, the Internet Combat Group, who have taken the law into thier own hands to fight paedophiles on the Web.
[June 29, 1998, 14:26]
Internet industry rejects child-porn blame
News AOL's spokesman said: "I don't think we should be complacent -- we can always be doing more" to stop the internet paedophiles. Carr believes that the ISPs' work, however, has made a contribution to tracking down the criminals: "It's part of the...
[January 13, 2004, 9:30]
The Year Ahead: Is the Internet becoming safer for children?
News The "anti-grooming" order proposed to make it a criminal offence for paedophiles to solicit children in Internet chatrooms, while additionally containing a civil order to protect children from an adult making contact with them online for a harmful...
[January 1, 2002, 6:31]
Freedom of speech v the will to protect children
News This allows the authorities to keep a closer eye on potential paedophiles which is the element of child pornography Jauch is most concerned about. ZDNet reports on the efforts of parents, police and governments to stop paedophiles operating on the...
[March 22, 1999, 10:55]
News Burst: 'Epidemic' of Internet child pornography sweeps UK
News An investigation by The Observer has revealed that lenient sentencing and a failure to recognise offenders as paedophiles is fuelling "an epidemic" of Internet child pornography. According to a spokesman for the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers...
[January 8, 2001, 8:15]
New tool to protect children from Net exploitation
News What are the risks of paedophiles approaching my children through Yahoo! A new Internet tool developed to aid the fight against child exploitation on the Internet has been unveiled on Thursday by Glasgow University,
[March 22, 2001, 15:47]
Naughton looks set to escape prison
News Normally the charge carries a maximum of 15 years behind bars, but Naughton will get a lighter sentence because he's helping the police nab paedophiles who operate online. Former Infoseek executive Patrick Naughton probably won't be going to jail...
[August 9, 2000, 9:54]
