Porno penetrates school environments
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Porno penetrates school environments
PORT MORESBY: No single reason can be solely blamed for the rise in child abuse in Papua New Guinea.
But among a major reason that is cause for public concern is school children and teenagers’ access to pornographic materials in handphone and the internet.
At least this is the case in Morobe, with police commander Supt Alex N’Drasal citing excessive use of mobile phone and the internet to access pornographic materials as one of several reasons for an alarming rise in child abuse cases.
He was quoted by The National as saying: “In schools, pornographic materials are found in the handphones of students. They view the matrials freely, and practice what they see.”
And N’Drasal is absolutely right when he said: This is a problem not only for the police and the judiciary to address but communities and concerned Non-Govenmental Organisations (and churches) must lend their support to help raise awareness and public moral education.”
PNG Cyber Monitor reproduces below the report by The National for the easy reading of our readers and followers who want more details of what N’Drasal revealed:
Digital sex found in schools
By JIMMY KALEBE
POLICE have found pornographic materials in handphones belonging to students in schools.
This is one of the many reasons why there is an alarming rise in the number of child sexual abuses in Morobe, police commander Supt Alex N’Drasal told The National yesterday.
N’Drasal blamed the rise in child sexual abuses in rural areas on the excessive use of mobile phones and internet to access pornographic materials.
Police blame rise in child abuse on internet access to pornographic materials
“In schools, pornographic materials are found in the handphones of students. They view the materials freely, and practice what they see,” he added.
He said the abuses were happening both within and outside family environments, affecting girls aged between 12 and 18.
“It is simply sad that the public is not taking such crimes seriously or reporting them soonest,” he said.
Police had dealt with a few cases this year.
“In the first three months of this year, the number of cases increased sharply and we are seeking solutions and public cooperation to help reduce the abuses by tackling the causes.
“One of the causes is parents abandoning their children, leaving them to fend for themselves. They become vulnerable to abusers on the prowl.
“In villages, those who are entrusted to care for children turned abusers,” he said, adding that many of the victims were impregnated.
He said the breakdown in family values caused by distrust between husband and wife was another cause in the rise of sexual child abuses.
“This is a problem not only for the police and the judiciary to address but communities and concerned non-governmental organisations (and churches) must lend their support to help raise awareness and public moral education.”
In 2015, the Government had announced it was to put in place a K2 million internet filter to block access to porn websites. It followed a report by Google Trend that PNG was the “most pornography-obsessed country in the world”.
It said although PNG had a population of around eight million and a low rate of internet use, it had the highest percentage of searches for the words “porn” and “pornography” in comparison to the nation’s total “searches” online.
Communication and Information Technology Minister Sam Basil had also raised his concern over the use of pornography on social media.
This is one of the many reasons why there is an alarming rise in the number of child sexual abuses in Morobe, police commander Supt Alex N’Drasal told The National yesterday.
N’Drasal blamed the rise in child sexual abuses in rural areas on the excessive use of mobile phones and internet to access pornographic materials.
Police blame rise in child abuse on internet access to pornographic materials
“In schools, pornographic materials are found in the handphones of students. They view the materials freely, and practice what they see,” he added.
He said the abuses were happening both within and outside family environments, affecting girls aged between 12 and 18.
“It is simply sad that the public is not taking such crimes seriously or reporting them soonest,” he said.
Police had dealt with a few cases this year.
“In the first three months of this year, the number of cases increased sharply and we are seeking solutions and public cooperation to help reduce the abuses by tackling the causes.
“One of the causes is parents abandoning their children, leaving them to fend for themselves. They become vulnerable to abusers on the prowl.
“In villages, those who are entrusted to care for children turned abusers,” he said, adding that many of the victims were impregnated.
He said the breakdown in family values caused by distrust between husband and wife was another cause in the rise of sexual child abuses.
“This is a problem not only for the police and the judiciary to address but communities and concerned non-governmental organisations (and churches) must lend their support to help raise awareness and public moral education.”
In 2015, the Government had announced it was to put in place a K2 million internet filter to block access to porn websites. It followed a report by Google Trend that PNG was the “most pornography-obsessed country in the world”.
It said although PNG had a population of around eight million and a low rate of internet use, it had the highest percentage of searches for the words “porn” and “pornography” in comparison to the nation’s total “searches” online.
Communication and Information Technology Minister Sam Basil had also raised his concern over the use of pornography on social media.
Govt needs to tackle pornography virus
Source:
The National, Friday October 18th, 2013
I WISH to express my views on how pornography is adversely affecting Papua New Guinea.
As we all know, production, consumption and distribution of pornography is illegal in PNG.
But since the sale of bemobile and Digicel modems and mobile phones, pornography is easily accessible by children and youths at anytime from anywhere.
Children and school students are accessing pornographic materials from their mobile phones, workers are accessing porn in their offices and others are accessing porn using modems via their personal computers.
Access to pornographic images and information is widely available and people who view them are easily evading police with the aid of the advanced technology.
It is my view that pornography is out of control in PNG.
It is beyond the control of law enforcing agencies such as the police and national censorship board.
It is hard for them to curb pornography. This is a wakeup call for Papua New Guineans and the national government.
The negative impacts of pornography in any society, including children, are deep and wide.
Empirical studies conducted and our common experiences and even common sense tell us that pornography is not good for society.
Men and women have lost their human dignity and respect because the porn industry makes them believe that sex is a commodity that can be traded on the market.
One of the negative impacts of porn images is that computer engineers tell us that images or pictures take up more space in a computer’s memory than mere words.
In a like manner, if a child or student accesses porn images frequently, these images occupy more space in their brain and this greatly affects the students’ memory.
The invasion of pornography is giving a hard time to teach youths about responsible sex.
In the past, it was the issue of boyfriends or girlfriends, but today the challenge is dealing with teenage sex and unwanted pregnancies because of the influence of porn.
The magnitude and the extent of the spread of pornography in PNG requires the attention of the government.
The government must look into this and revise our information technology policies and related laws and inroduce legislative control to deter the flow of pornographic images coming to the shores of PNG.
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