Ds and porn

[claw4]

Ds is 8, ASD and very gullible and naive. I am fully aware of this and usually have parental control over his web viewing, however for 2 days whilst installing my new antivirus etc software to pc's there was no parental control.

Ds usually only goes on 'Moshi Monster' website anyhow. However during one of those 2 days, a boy from ds's class sent him the name of porn sites and told him to check them out, 4 in total.

I always search ds's history and found that he had visited these sites, it was extreme hard core stuff (some rape, some gay)

I have informed the school. The boy who told ds to look and provided the names of the sites often targets ds, gets him into trouble at school, blames him for things that he has done etc, etc. He knows that ds will do whatever he tells him to do and will not speak up.

School are aware of this and ds has previously been banned from playing with this boy (although this was pointless, as they have no way of monitoring it).

What would you expect school to do about this?

If you can that would be great. I am so scared that he might look at something like this.

The problem with the Buddy system is that the older child doesn't necessarily appreciate that the younger one has needs/social issues. DS1 when he moved up from Infant to Junior, plagued his buddy daily for weeks. The poor buddy kid was trying really hard to be understanding about DS, but ended up getting piss taken out of him by kids in his Y6 class.

Done Ben, let me know how you get on.

Sally, i can see how that could happen. In ds's school they used children from ds's class as 'buddies'. Ds was asked to choose between a couple of children who school considered more sensible.

Once out in the playground, they both went off in different directions!

Just to confirm to others using Google, it would be best to use Google Safe Search here. That manages to block graphic websites that come up when a couple of very normal non-sexual words are searched.

Claw and I have tested that these sites can be blocked using Google Safe Search whereas with just the parental controls programmes installed Google will return these graphic sites.

Yep i will second that, i now have google safe search and all 4 of the sites i could previously view with just parental control, i now cant.

Thank you so much Ben.

Although i still wont be letting ds on MM or Binweevils or any other such sites and any computer access he has will be supervised from now on.

Your poor ds. :(

I know that our school sent out a letter warning parents that there had been problems with the MM site. I can't remember how they worded it but it was something about problems with child safety. It might be worth asking your school to do the same to warn other parents.