Child Pornography is Child Abuse
The jailing today of former priest Oliver O’Grady for downloading images of child abuse onto his laptop highlights how difficult it is to police this aspect of child abuse. It appears that O’Grady was caught by accident after he left his laptop on a plane following a flight from Amsterdam to Dublin. When the laptop was examined images of children being abused were discovered. When Gardai
raided the room in the hostel where he lived they discovered thousands of other images. O’Grady had already served time in California for the sexual abuse of two children, and was deported back to Ireland on his release.
Using the term “child pornography” does not accurately capture what is at stake here. To create these images, real children are sexually abused. Real children are violated, raped, terrorised and traumatised. Their lives are blighted by the experience, and they must live in the knowledge that the images of their abuse will be eternally available on the internet. Police forces around the world seem to be helpless to stop the traffic in these images. While there have been some notable law enforcement successes, too many sex offenders operate without fear of detection in this virtual world. Meanwhile many good people view “child pornography” as somehow less serious than contact sexual abuse, forgetting the lives that are destroyed in the production of these vile images.
Comments (2)
THESE MEN SHOULD BE CHARGED AS CHILD ABUSERS AS THEY LOOK FOR THIS KINDA STUFF ON THE INTERNET ....SO THEY ARE AS BAD .....
jane phillips at 17:33 on 30 January 2012
looking at it is as bad as doin it..its sick
shaneda at 00:11 on 01 February 2012