Caught 8 y/o watching porn

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I've accidentally caught my son watching pretty hardcore porn while I reached over where he was sitting on the sofa to pick up a cup next to him. He tried to draw his iPad up to his chest but I pulled it down and saw a video playing. It was Pornhub and extremely graphic hetero porn.

I took his iPad and started searching through his history and this has been going on for a week. His search history started with Googling "naked people" and then he's been watching several porn hub videos every day. He's autistic and loves watching Minecraft/Roblox/robotics videos with his headphones on so I don't suspect. It turns out his dad left his Google account logged in on my son's iPad after showing him something on YouTube and that's how he's been bypassing the content restrictions I've put in place on our Apple/icloud family settings.

We've chatted about it but he's very embarrassed and thinks he's going to be arrested. Husband has taken them to bed, iPad has been removed. I'm just completely at a loss. 8 is so young and he's not neurotypical.

Exactly bloody hell each and every one of you shaming OP - your precious babies were all interested in naked people far earlier than they ever let you know.

OP honestly don't worry, these things happen. Talk him through his thought process of what he has seen and like PP explain this is not what adults normally do.

While I think there's a middle ground to be sought, and shaming is never helpful, I don't feel that an eight year old watching several Porn Hub vidoos a day of extremely graphic hardcore porn on an iPad, over the course of a week while in the family home, can be put under the category of shit happens, don't worry about it.

It's not "shit happens, don't worry about it"

It's "shit happens, sort it out"

Of course they aren't all the same. But having your own ipad at that age isn't necessary or (IMO) a good thing.

I'm so sorry you're getting such horrible comments 🙁 please don't feel this way, it was an accident, people make accidents all the time!!
Just use this as a lesson learned type of thing and maybe have a chat with your son about it if you feel comfortable?
I'm not sure how old I was at the time, but I remember a phase in childhood of being very curious let's say. Sometimes it's not even the fact it's sexual content but just very intriguing! It's a different world and nothing you've ever seen before as a child. Hopefully it's an experience behind him now in his childhood.
Hope you're ok x

Shit does happen and she wanted advice on what to do. Particularly as DS is not a neurotypical child.

Eight year olds interested in naked bodies is actually a lot more common than you think, and whilst watching hardcore porn is not ideal at this age, it has happened and OP wanted to figure out how to deal with it rather than be told what a catastrophe it is and how she's a shit mother.

Let's not forget that the child actually went looking for those videos out of curiosity - so an open conversation about what was seen is fine, he can learn to process the psychology/ biology of what he has seen.