Pedophilia and child pornography: the number of adults arrested is growing. Data for Sardinia
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The Postal Police against pedophilia and child pornography is a daily commitment and on the occasion of the national day against these crimes some data relating to Sardinia are disseminated.
In general , the number of adults arrested for being caught in the act of a crime, for possessing large quantities of child pornography or for being abusers of children and young people in their possession is growing .
They are often men, under the age of 50 , who systematically exploit the technical characteristics of the various network services to ensure anonymity and impunity.
Minors are more exposed to risks because they have a more spontaneous relationship with new technologies - chat rooms, gaming platforms - and it is precisely there that adults try to lure them.
Parents - the police recall - are the first bulwark of safety for children and teenagers and have, in listening and dialogue, the most powerful tools to make the protection of children a reality and their safety a fact.
The Dossier "Inside the numbers: the fight against online pedophilia" contains not only information capable of describing a current risk but also wants to describe a protection system such as the one carried out by the Postal Police, made up of inter-institutional synergies and multidisciplinary activities in which the of knowledge and commitments aimed at building possible and effective solutions.
Going into detail on the regional data, the "Sardinia" Cyber Security Operations Center treated 25 cases of child pornography in 2022 and 8 cases in the first four months of 2023; these led to the referral to the judicial authority of 30 people in 2022, one of whom was arrested, and another 8 in the first quarter of 2023. As regards, however, the crime of online solicitation, 21 cases were dealt with in the year 2022, with 13 people under investigation, and 8 cases in the first four months of 2023, with 3 people under investigation. Victims of online grooming are mostly between the ages of 9 and 13.
(Unioneonline/ss)