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Talk’s Alex Phillips is joined by social commentator and abuse survivor Samantha Smith to discuss online grooming crimes reaching a record high in the UK.
More than 7,000 offences were recorded by police over last year according to the NSPCC – an 89% increase since 2018. The youngest victim last year was a boy aged five.
On the issue, the pair discuss the dangers of online platforms such as Snapchat and Samantha adds people are increasingly “taking advantage of kids through social media.”
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there are also hypersexualised billboards in the underground and on the streets, also sexual fetishes on billboards are exposed for all to see, so it is definitely not only social media. the problem is our society that is becoming more and more porn addicted and perverse.
Disgusting
The sex education curriculum is, in effect, Government sponsored child grooming.
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Its Snapchat just look through the camera
& yet no one will talk about it
The whole aspect of child predation and the horrific crimes involved seem to be downplayed and continue to do so by governments…
Minor attracted people.
Releasing 70 convicted abusers without a single day spent in prison.
Spreading rhetoric in schools and hosting drag shows for children… does it not make sense that there is some underlying agenda???
There needs to be harsh sentences. People shouldn't walk away without a prison sentence for paedophilia
Free Tommy Robinson.
easily sorted with good old fashioned racism …. tell your kids very easy no monkeys
If children weren't using sites for adults it wouldn't be so easy for predators to groom them. Most social media requires an age of at least 13, Snapchat was 16 or 18 last I checked, to make an account. By rights children shouldn't be on them. Where are the parents? It's not much different to children going to the pub or club exclusively for over 18's and people, almost always men, getting done for predatory offences when they're told the child is 18 by the child. Then there's the fact the real predators tend to use children's sites and even charities or educational events to groom them. Mermaids, Stonewall and Roblox spring to mind.
Older people should be prosecuted for using on-line chat for under18s.
They can't be using such platforms for anything but nefarious purposes.
I know that identifying the originators of fake profiles is difficult but, is enough being done to protect youngsters?
No one should be sending disrobed photographs on the internet.
It was never thought of, when I was young.
It's this reality TV thing that put these ideas in kids minds.
I'm assuming it's a lot of foreigners
As an atheist I know believe that the devil is at work and has minions are perpetrating it
Ban under 16s from using the internet. Go back to school homework back in my days whereby kids did homework using text books and printed materials from schools. Ban under 16s from owning smartphones and fine parents who provide these to their children.
Abusers need to be punished but they just don't care about the punishment because they just want to carry on abusing kids. Hence why prevention is better than cure- kids don't need the internet. Kids managed just fine on call and text only phones and Freeview TV and playing with footballs and art materials growing up.
Simple solution….
Completely ban unsupervised Internet access for all under 16s…
Unless they are using it for school work or research at home then the Internet is nothing but poison to a child
Too many parents believe that being a good parent is based upon the materialistic items you provide for your child…
In reality… any expensive item you buy for a child is unnecessary and detrimental to their development, attitude, behaviour and safety…
Especially smartphones…
Who thinks that the authorities in the uk will come down hard on the Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs??? I suspect not many, sadly 😔
I have a simple solution. Don't let your kids use social media. It's lazy and naive parenting.
This society is not protecting our children, these weird men have no fear, they won’t be imprisoned…. No SM for children, if they do have it after a certain age ( 15-18) have their passwords, I did with my daughter, she hated me but she was under my roof and I paid for her phone, at 18 it was live an 18th gift and at that age they should be able to manage themselves!
It's due to the rise in muslim imagents coming in. Rotherham grooming gangs were not just there, and they are still going even now.
With all the warnings out there in the schools, media ect ,why the hell are these kids replying? Parents are not doing the job , you are not your kids mates , you are guardians . Also jack up the penalty for the slime doing this .