The trend has led to strong warnings from judges and barristers of the connection between unsupervised smartphone use and sexual offending
This has led to dark warnings from judges and barristers of the connection between unsupervised smartphone use and sexual offending.
At the time he was defending a boy who was 12 when he raped his eight-year-old cousin. A probation service report linked the offending to the boy’s exposure to pornography on his mobile phone from an early age. Analysis of the Garda Youth Diversion Programme also provides a worrying insight. In 2020, the latest year for which figures were available, there was a 42 per cent increase in children being referred to the programme for “child pornography” offences. This came at a time when almost every other category of youth offending saw large declines due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“It’s not just Playboy off the shelf. These are masochistic, horrible images they are looking at,” he says. What’s more, the courts may be just seeing the “tip of the iceberg”, he adds. Gareth Noble, a solicitor dealing with child law, has previously said parents of children as young as 11 are coming to him for advice because they are worried their child might have committed a sexual offence.
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