sarettah
10-17-2003, 08:05 PM
I think this goes along with the thread started by Mike http://www.oprano.com/msgboard/index.php?a...0fd9484624f19af (http://www.oprano.com/msgboard/index.php?act=ST&f=1&t=6367&s=5858c7b6678b2bb4c0fd9484624f19af) But this is an important story and I didn't want to chance it getting buried, so i kind of married them together.
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http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,5150...5039143,00.html (http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,515039143,00.html)
Government hunts pornographers
Parents urged to do more to protect children
By Lee Davidson
Deseret Morning News
WASHINGTON — Justice Department officials say one aim of pornographers as they flood the Internet is to desensitize children into becoming a new generation of smut junkies.
But officials and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch vowed Wednesday to wage war against it.
"This is a growing problem that we need to attack aggressively," said Hatch, R-Utah. "We cannot sit quietly and hope it will go away."
He held a hearing about federal efforts to combat it — which served as a warning to pornographers that the federal government is now hunting them aggressively, and as a warning to parents to do more to protect their own children.
Showing the breadth of the problem, deputy assistant attorney general John G. Malcolm said, "It has been estimated that 90 percent of children between the ages of 8 and 16 have been exposed to obscene material on the Internet."
He added, "A recent study by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children indicates that approximately 20,000 images of child pornography (depicting children) are posted on the Internet every week."
Hatch added, "Pornographic Web pages now top 250 million and are growing at an unprecedented rate." He added that many are obviously targeted to children, bearing names that are manipulations of such things as Harry Potter or Pokemon.
J. Robert Flores, administrator of the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, explained why the government believes pornographers are flooding the Net and often aiming at children.
"The distribution of obscene material to children is the commercial porn industry's vehicle to create a new generation of pornography junkies," he said.
Hatch said, "The result of all this porn is that there are 11-, 12- or 13-year-old children being treated for pornography addictions."
That was supported by Victor Cline, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Utah who has treated sexual deviants for 26 years.
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http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,5150...5039143,00.html (http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,515039143,00.html)
Government hunts pornographers
Parents urged to do more to protect children
By Lee Davidson
Deseret Morning News
WASHINGTON — Justice Department officials say one aim of pornographers as they flood the Internet is to desensitize children into becoming a new generation of smut junkies.
But officials and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch vowed Wednesday to wage war against it.
"This is a growing problem that we need to attack aggressively," said Hatch, R-Utah. "We cannot sit quietly and hope it will go away."
He held a hearing about federal efforts to combat it — which served as a warning to pornographers that the federal government is now hunting them aggressively, and as a warning to parents to do more to protect their own children.
Showing the breadth of the problem, deputy assistant attorney general John G. Malcolm said, "It has been estimated that 90 percent of children between the ages of 8 and 16 have been exposed to obscene material on the Internet."
He added, "A recent study by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children indicates that approximately 20,000 images of child pornography (depicting children) are posted on the Internet every week."
Hatch added, "Pornographic Web pages now top 250 million and are growing at an unprecedented rate." He added that many are obviously targeted to children, bearing names that are manipulations of such things as Harry Potter or Pokemon.
J. Robert Flores, administrator of the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, explained why the government believes pornographers are flooding the Net and often aiming at children.
"The distribution of obscene material to children is the commercial porn industry's vehicle to create a new generation of pornography junkies," he said.
Hatch said, "The result of all this porn is that there are 11-, 12- or 13-year-old children being treated for pornography addictions."
That was supported by Victor Cline, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Utah who has treated sexual deviants for 26 years.