Adult content website viewed by 12 year old DD …. Advice please

[yorkshirepudgf]

Hi Everyone, just looking for some advice or if someone can point me in the right direction please?

Last night I caught my 12 year old DD on a disgusting website called Omegle where you can talk to strangers online (said her friend was on at the time too). I went on the website myself and pressed “video”. The two videos that I saw were of men with erect penis’ masturbating (appeared to be live and just links you in with a random person). I was so shocked. She admitted to being on before during a sleepover with 2 friends (the other person is able to see you).

The website gets you to tick that you are over 18. The people on there clearly know that children are accessing this website and my DD says that other children at school go on too.

Is there any way of reporting this? As it’s an adult website is there anything that can be done? I’m just concerned that if (according to my DD) lots of other kids are going on it’s a potential gateway for pedophiles to get their kicks. We’ve tightened up all of our parental controls.

Thanks

You can probably report it via CEOPS but honestly Omegle has been around for at least a decade, this is not new and neither is the behaviour from either your daughter (in confirming she’s 18 when she’s not) nor from the men. It’s not right, but don’t think there’s a lot you can do other than review your settings so she literally can’t find websites that have an age rating.

you have to have the conversation with her about sex, relationships, porn sites, chat rooms et etc. she said she’d been on this site before, and she’s probably Googled more sites.
You also need to adjust your broadband filters and stop her from using her data on her phone to get round the Wi-Fi restrictions.

Put parental controls on internet access.

Take her phone away. She clearly isn't responsible enough to have one yet.

Cor,.Omegle was a thing when I was a teen! I remember doing the same as your DD with friends at sleepovers. No advice. Personally I don't feel the use of the site caused me any great harm, but that's subjective I suppose. Idk who you could report it to... Lots of adult websites simply require a tick

You could tell the school and ask them to send out a message to all parents saying that it has come to their attention that children in the school are accessing this site (explaining what the site is) and that parents should check browser history on all devices and tighten parental controls.
The school could also have a word with the pupils about it and online safety etc.

Kids are still going to do it. They always have and always will. But we can at least make sure adults know, can supervise internet use and talk to them.

That site has been around forever.

If a child is going to lie about their age to access it then I'm not sure what they can do.

If lots of kids from school are accessing it then the school may send a letter out to parents to let them know if you let the school know, their internet settings should prevent kids from accessing adult sites anyway.

Imo this is a parenting issue, not a website issue.

Yeah this site and ones like it or with adult content have been around forever and are easily accessible by teens. It may be possible to put more controls on the devices but let’s face it 12 yo or teens are going to get around that easily and probably no more about the internet than you do.

I get the worry about pedophiles so I think you really have to I still that into them - however thinking you are going to be able to stop her from viewing sexual content if curious is not realistic in any way. It’s just to easy with the internet and there’s no way to stop it - even before the internet Is wager most kids had seen porno magazines or video etc. quite young.

Have to Instill that into them