Police raids confirm that child pornography is increasingly prevalent, also of Minors. The youth should first learn what you do to the other, says child rights activist Gommeringer in the DW-Interview.
Because of the suspicion of the transmission of video files that show part of a serious sexual violence against children, is determined after a RAID in eleven Federal States, against 21 Suspects. According to the Prosecutor General, they are between 14 and 26 years old. DW spoke about this development with the Director of the children’s protection Association “dark number”.
DW: Mrs. Gommeringer, it’s not just pedophiles that have photos and Videos of the sexual abuse of children and pass it on. As of the most recent determination of success of prosecution and police authorities, are often minors and young adults, the spread of child pornography. This is a surprising phenomenon for you?
Julia Gommeringer: No. Children and young people are not interested necessarily of child pornographic Material, but to something that is intense and extraordinary. You are not aware of a paedophile in the sense as we know it adult, but it’s about to be cool: ‘gnarly dude, look what I’ve got here.’ Such content, wherever you come from, be sent. And then sent a Young what is cool, and the other sends it more, because he wants to be cool. Often you think about it no further.
Children’s Rights Activist Julia Gommeringer
The investigating authorities stated that the young offenders, tend to have no consciousness of injustice and the spread More reputation as a Bagatelle – this fits into the picture, the sketch just. What is it in your opinion that there is little or even no feelings of guilt?
This is also a ‘not to Think about it’. It is believed, has sent a something, then it can be forbidden anything. I think it is also a General coarsening plays a role. The access to pornography and images of Violence, today was just a completely other one than he a few years ago. Everything is sent quickly and with all shared. Without even thinking about it. For adolescents, the act consists of only three clicks. Since you have the feeling, that can’t be bad.
It is a phenomenon of the social networks and their so-called echo chambers that incites them to each other. What is the role of but, in your opinion, a lack of compassion or lack of media skills when Sharing such content?
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It plays a very big role. It would be really important that the children and young people learn both in the schools and in the parents ‘ house anymore, what is right and what is wrong, what is really a punishable offence. Because these Videos are liable to prosecution and this is not the children and young people clearly.
What are the consequences should the authorities from this development? What are the signals you could set to make the young people aware of the fact that it is a trivial offence?
A first step is surely to be done with this campaign, the Federal criminal police office BKA, to say to the young people, what are you doing, is a criminal Offence. But also in the school competence and social competence in the curriculum is part of the media.
What is the BKA-campaign you mean, exactly?
The BKA has also gone to the press. There is also a small movie has been on the Facebook page of the BKA to show to young people: It can also stand for the first time the police in front of the door and the phone, the Laptop, the Tablet or the Playstation collect, because it is a criminal Offence. But: It would be important that children and young people in the school media learning skills. What is right, what is wrong, what the consequences for me? And what are the consequences for the victims? Because it is often not thought about. The need to learn the young people so that they remember what you do to others, in which you send such content.
What makes the Sacrifice, which occurs in the filmed abuse or – what – the voluntary sexual act in the network, are widely used by peers?
We experience it again and again, is that it very quickly and unconsciously, situations in which a victim can sometimes even volunteer to movies, because it is the consequence not aware of. And others distribute such recordings, because they are not aware that this is prohibited, but the cool find. For the victims, that is, of course, see it all. It is then no longer as in the past, when someone showed a photo around, but what has happened is with three clicks of the whole school to see in each of the class chat. The parents get it, everyone gets it. Such children do not want to go according to our experience, often times in front of the door.
How should respond to the parents on this development?
Parents need to make sure that you speak with your children about what is right and what is wrong. What are you allowed to spread what you are not allowed to spread. You need to drag the borders and, above all, to be interested in what the children are doing. It is not a new phenomenon that young people want their parents to delimit, not to tell everything. Only the parents think that the children can use your phone just like you do as an adult. But the children send to other things and other things to do with it, is totally normal. Only as a parent, you have to remain interested and the boundaries.
Julia Gommeringer is the managing Director of the “dark figure”. The mostly donation-funded Association fights since 1993, with therapies, counselling, prevention and education against sexual abuse of children and child pornography.
The conversation Ralf Bosen led.