Child pornography is a very unfortunate reality of the Internet. The Internet is being highly used by its abusers to reach and abuse children sexually, worldwide.

The Internet is very fast becoming a household commodity in India. Its explosion has made the children a viable victim to the cyber crime. As more homes have access to Internet, more children would be using the Internet and more are the chances of falling victim to the aggression of pedophiles.

“Child pornography” means any visual depiction, including

1. any photograph
2. film, video, picture, or
3. computer or computer-generated image or picture, of sexually explicit conduct, where the production of such visual depiction involves the use of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct
   

Pedophiles are those persons who physically or psychologically coerce minors to engage in sexual activities, which the minors would not consciously consent to.

1. Pedophiles use a false identity to trap the children/teenagers
2. Seek child/teen victim in the kids’ areas on the services, such as the Teens BB, Games BB, or chat areas where the kids gather.
3. Befriend the child/teen.
4. Extract personal information from the child/teen by winning his/ her confidence.
5. Get the e-mail address of the child/teen and start making contacts on the victim’s e-mail address as well. Sometimes, these emails contain sexually explicit language.
6. They start sending pornographic images/text to the victim including child pornographic images in order to help child/teen shed his/ her inhibitions so that a feeling is created in the mind of the victim that what is being fed to him is normal and that everybody does it.
7. Going a step further, they then extract personal information from child/teen.
8. At the end of it, the pedophiles set up a meeting with the child/teen out of the house and then drag him/ her into the net to further sexually assault him/ her or to use him/ her as a sex object

In physical world, parents know the face of dangers and they know how to avoid and face the problems by following simple rules and accordingly they advice their children to keep away from dangerous things and ways. But in case of cyber world, most of the parents do not themselves know about the basics of the Internet and dangers posed by various services offered over the Internet. Hence the children are left unprotected in the cyber world. Pedophiles take advantage of this situation and lure the children, who are not advised by their parents or by their teachers about what is wrong and what is right for them while browsing the Internet.

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