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In searching Google for news on missing children, I found this report posted on Stars and Stripes website says an airman accused of possession of child porn had logged onto an illegal Web site that featured kids identified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Known missing children were also identified by NCMEC in this case in Austin and Steven’s Point.
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Since Madeleine’s abduction, we have learned a lot about missing children and child exploitation. The scale of the problem is massive and worldwide. Although finding Madeleine will always remain our priority, we feel it is our duty to highlight these problems as well as areas where legislation can be improved, in order to make the world a little safer for all children.
“They are all the same, no clues, no signs, only alone for a few minutes, no remains found. They are so similar they must have been organised in the same way. “There have always been monsters harming children but usually the remains are found after some weeks or months. These cases are a new thing like an epidemic – a complete mystery in tiny windows of time with parents nearby. “So many coincidences, too many for them to be random happenings.
I need to correct myself as there has been one case brought before Malaysian courts in 2005 of a 21-year-old cell phone salesman who was charged with having a laptop computer containing a movie taken from a pornographic website reported here . The computer, at his shop in Kuala Lumpur, allegedly contained the movie in 3GP (a video format that can be played on cell phones). This report says he was the first Malaysian to be charged for owning these movies and intending to sell them to interested parties. If convicted, he could be jailed for up to five years and fined up to 50,000 ringgit ($A17,226). However, he claimed trial and I could not find any reports on what happened to this case.
This report in 2005 says porn content is illegal in Malaysia but enforcement of anti-pornography laws has been weak and there is unfettered access to pornography on the internet. Read also this report in The Star June 21, 2005 on arguments for and against internet censorship and this report on spot checks of mobiles for porn. This 2006 report in Times Online about use of eGold by paedophiles to trade child porn. In April 2007, the International Herald Tribune carried this report on Malaysia’s movie bootleggers selling more pornography including some featuring underaged girls that comprised nearly a quarter of some 180,000 illegal DVDs found in four days of raids in Johor. Read this December 2007 report on the smash of an online business based in Kelantan selling pornographic DVDs and VCDs for the past two years.
UK’s Daily Mail reports here of the swift action of a wife that has put her paedophile businessman husband behind bars indefinitely after she turned him in on finding sickening films of him raping a 12-year-old girl. Police also discovered that he had also wired up his home to secretly record his own family in their most intimate moments. He was also banned from contact with girls under 18, using cameras or computers for improper purposes, and ordered to register as a sex offender for life.
In Hong Kong, this report on a survey by the Hong Kong Women Teachers’ Organization, shows that about one in every three students aged 10 or under has been exposed to pornography, about one-third of got information surfing the web, a further one-third from provocative comics, and 20 percent found sexual content in newspapers and magazines. The study was prompted by a group of teachers concerned over the almost daily reports of teenage pregnancies, molestations and sex- related crimes.
