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Bebi
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 Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:38 pm Post subject: Convicted paedophiles face Internet crackdown |
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| Quote: | Tuesday February 6, 10:30 AM
By Peter Griffiths
LONDON (Reuters) -
Convicted paedophiles may have to register their email addresses and online nicknames with police under new laws designed to protect children using the Internet, the government said on Tuesday.
A Home Office spokeswoman said child sex offenders could have more details recorded on the Sex Offenders Register in an attempt to stop them from "grooming" children online.
"If they give us false details of their name and address they can be punished by up to five years in prison," Reid told Sky News. "What I want to explore is to see whether we can have the same requirement for email addresses and Web identities."
A system may be developed that would detect offenders trying to use the registered details to visit Web sites where they could target children, he said.
The proposals form part of a Home Office review of child sex offences that is due to released later this year, the spokeswoman said.
The dangers of Internet paedophiles were highlighted this week when three men were jailed for conspiring to kidnap and rape two girls they hoped to meet in Internet chatrooms.
David Beavan, Alan Hedgcock and Robert Mayers used the Internet to put together their plot to kidnap the two girls, aged 13 and 14, take them to woods and rape them.
They were jailed for a total of 27 years on Monday in what police said was the first case in the country to use cyber chat as evidence.
Reid's proposals came as 100 schoolchildren attended a series of workshops in London designed to educate them about the dangers posed by the Internet.
"We are asking young people to stop and think about the risks they take online," said Helen Penn, of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), which is affiliated to the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
Nearly a third of young people have received unwanted sexual comment online or by text message, CEOP said. Only 7 percent of parents are aware that their child has received such material.
Under current laws, sex offenders must register their name, address and national insurance number with police within three days of conviction or release from prison.
They have to confirm their details every year and tell police if they plan to travel abroad for more than three days.
Officers are allowed to take a photograph or the fingerprints of sex offenders on the register.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/06022007...iles-face-internet-crackdown.html |
As far as I'm concerned this is a plan that will never work from the start. Ask yourself - how easy is it to change a chat room name or email address? I'm concerned this is going to lead to free email addresses being stopped, does anyone remember MSN and their chat rooms?
I'm a firm believer that with the proper parental observation and care while children are using the internet then paedophiles will become less of a problem. There's no point in the Government making all these schemes when kids are allowed to do what they want on the net. I allow my children to use the net, but they are supervised (ie I or another adult sit so they can see the screen without being obtrusive) and their email/buddy lists are under parental control with a strict no access to chat rooms policy. Only people I have approved are allowed to see them online or email them, they often sit chatting to their granddad and other members of the family. The kids have no problems with being monitored, although they're aged 8 and 10 they've had the dangers of the net explained to them and know that stranger equals danger on there as it does in real life. They also know under no circumstances to give out any of their details to anyone they don't know. I honestly believe that the internet is a great thing for kids, as long as it's properly managed, but like I said that's down to the parents.
I used to use AOL chat rooms, and it's a real eye opener to see how many youngsters come into a room and casually admit they're under 16. When asked if their parents knew they were in a public chat room the normal answer was either "they don't care" or "so?" I've even witnessed a 14 year old girl enter the room and ask if there were any "men" who wanted a one to one chat.
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