The number of children sexually abusing other children has risen steeply, with treatment services reporting that pornography and family violence are fuelling the trend.
Children as young as four are being referred to programs for problem sexual behaviour as more parents and schools detect abuse in the family home and in the playground.
The Royal Children’s Hospital’s Gatehouse service saw 350 new cases in the past financial year – more than double the previous year. Of those children, 60 per cent were abusing a sibling; more than 90 per cent had experienced or witnessed family violence.
Experts say the seriousness of the sexual acts has escalated in recent years and that online pornography is often being used as a “teaching manual” for abuse…
…”One of the most concerning cohorts for us is the very young kids – the children who are under 12 or even under 10 and their sexually abusive behaviour is quite severe. We’re seeing a lot more of anal, oral and vaginal penetration of younger children,” said forensic psychologist Russell Pratt, who spent 12 years with the Centre Against Sexual Assault and is one of Australia’s leading authorities on sexualised behaviour in children.
…Social commentator Melinda Tankard Reist, co-founder of Collective Shout For A World Free of Sexploitation, said a tipping point had been reached and government regulation of online pornography was needed.
“How much worse does it have to get? How many more five-year-olds do we want to have in treatment programs until we say maybe it shouldn’t be a free-for-all where kids can access torture porn and rape porn and incest porn? Children are being groomed to think this stuff is normal.” Read full article.
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Question what is the sex of those children who are busily engaged in ‘oral, anal and/or vaginal penetration of younger children? Another question what is the sex of those children who are being subjected to sexual violence by other children? No guesses it is boys because boys are avidly watching porn and then imitating the male sexual violence against women they have just watched. Likewise it is female children those male children are sexually preying because male children do not have vaginas!
it isn’t rocket science naming sex of the perpetrators but of course naming males as the perpetrators continues to be a big no no because men don’t want their dirty secrets made public.
It isn’t that ‘children are being groomed to think this stuff is normal’ – it is that mens’ porn industry is now commonplace and male children are learning that male sex right to sexually prey on females of all ages is not a crime but a male sex right!! However as usual men become invisible when issue concerns their male accountability and an unidentified entity/entities is busily grooming children – sex undisclosed of course.
Men’s porn industry cannot be neatly separated from how boy children are learning how to commit male sexual violence against female children and/or adult women with impunity, because mens’ porn industry continues to proclaim females aren’t human so therefore males of all ages have sacrosanct right to subject women and girls to male sexual violence because males will experience immense sexual pleasure as well as reinforcing their women-hating belief that being a male means enacting male sexual dominance over all women and girls.