maybe they typed the incidents as some MN's were young/not born and dont know the truly awful things were done well, if people feel the need to remind themselves of the details there are perfectly good sources of the case on the internet without people feeling the need to sit and type them out.
To that end I do have a question though and it’s not meant to offend. But WRT John Venables and the crime he (and hopefully others who he has associated with) have been convicted of, the advances in the internet and electronic communications presumably mean that these are newly created crimes, crimes which didn’t exist before Venables was released from jail.
To that end, has the number of sex offences now increased as although presumably people did produce images way back, these wouldn’t have been as “easily” distributable as they are since the innovation of the internet.
Or has the advancement in digital technology enabled more child sex offenders to go underground and commit crimes from the comfort of their own homes rather than looking for actual victims to abuse?
It’s my understanding that possessing child images doesn’t generally lead to offenders abusing in person, but if that is true, then surely the number of sex abuse cases must have increased exponentially over the past twenty years? And if that’s the case, surely more can be done? Beginning with the means to block access to the dark web for a start, as this is where most of that kind of stuff originates isn’t it?
Now I’ll freely admit that I know nothing about the dark web, but I do know that it’s not your average search engine and that generally people go there to remain undetected and to be able to commit fairly heinous acts or download pretty awful material. But we do have some powers over the net in this country? ISP’s certainly do, so why can they not just block the access to it? Would that change anything?