Internet continues to corrupt thousands of young children


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The internet usage of over 300 young children and teenagers has come under scrutiny in a recent survey by NetValue, a research company specialising in web-based issues.

Findings demonstrate that in the region of 382,000 of the UK’s 1.5 million juvenile internet users had visited gambling sites in an attempt to win money by playing virtual games and approximately 290,000 had logged onto pornographic pages. Some 9% of the former and 8% of the latter were aged ten or under. The average length of time spent on these sites was half an hour.

While schools install special software designed to block access to unsuitable sites, many home pcs are not protected by the same facility. While the internet remains totally unlegislated, parents are being urged to keep a watching brief as to what their children are logging onto.

A spokesman for Family and Youth Concern, Eric Hester, expressed his dismay at the ease with which young children are able to get into sites offering adult-oriented content, saying, ‘Young people are very adept at using new technology. The internet should be brought under the same kind of legislation as newspapers, film and television.‘

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