Introduction

 

We the students of M. Sc. Cyber security from Amity University Rajasthan are presenting this blog series to make people aware about this severe emerging issue of Child Pornography.

Due to this era of pandemic all the children are using mobile phones, laptops and are online most of the time which makes them vulnerable. Parents also think that their children are studying and don’t pay much attention. We want to Encourage victims by making them aware about these offences of Child pornography through our blog and rescue these innocent lives from continued abuse.

Through our blogs we want to Make common people aware of law enforcement strategies, legislative proposals, and policy initiatives relating to child pornography laws. So they can take immediate legal action on the offender instead of hiding these things due to shyness or due to fear of defamation.

Child sexual assault and exploitation were once limited to physical locations such as school playgrounds, church vestibules, trusted neighbors’ homes, camping trips, and seedy, darkly lit back rooms of adult bookstores. Rapid increases in Internet usage have created a virtual hunting ground for those who prey on children and do a multi-billion dollar trade in the associated illicit material. Online child exploitation includes all forms of sex abuse of children with an online nexus, particularly enticement of minors to engage in sexual activity; manufacture, distribution, and importation of child pornography; and child sex tourism.

The term pornography was first defined in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1857 and was referenced earlier in French writing to refer to writing about prostitution, obscenity, and obscene images. Each jurisdiction has its own, very specific, definitions of “child” and “pornography.” For our purposes in this brief introduction to the matter, “child pornography” can be functionally defined as an image that depicts a clearly prepubescent human being in a sexually explicit manner.

 In addition to providing a new venue for child exploitation, the Internet reduces fear by providing anonymity and facilitating fantasy development. The Internet gives offenders easier access to support groups of likeminded individuals, reducing their sense of being sidelined. The Internet is also very easy to use, making it readily accessible to even the least technologically literate among the population.

 While the Internet has made the world smaller by bringing distant people and places within easy reach, computer storage media have grown larger to hold almost unfathomable amounts of information. Computer storage capacity has increased to the point at which a small personal computer hard drive can hold as much information as the United States Library of Congress. Child pornographers use this space to store personal libraries of tens of thousands of digital images. Additionally, people increasingly conduct their communications and store more records electronically—financial, personal, and otherwise.