This trend is a horrendous: Parents are an essential warning

Phones in the hands of the little ones are not surprising these days. Children play games, watch movies. It is interesting for them and the opportunity to take pictures and film.

Unfortunately, it is not just filming your plush toys. Children also take pictures or shoot naked friends, brothers, sisters. It happens that even six -year -olds are able to place these images to social networks.

« When he comes to the law enforcement agency, his grandfather learns and sees the footage that the image is in his kitchen, and his grandson stands naked in that kitchen, and obviously he is filmed by another young grandson, and he is able to load it to YouTube, » said Edita Žiobienė.

« Mostly on Youtube, Tiktok, on game platforms, which is also very popular because it is possible to corresponds, » said Valentina Mickevič, Chief Investigator of the Public Order Bureau of the Police Department.

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The police are monitored by troubled numbers. Last year, about twice as many studies were started due to children’s pornography as the year before. In all cases, the offender is a minor in quotes, so the investigations are terminated.

« Once reported, the photos are blocked. When the police are already intervening and starting or terminating the age of the age, then we turn to social networks to remove those photos, » Mickiewicz explained.

Police only talk about cases where minors put pornographic images. There are no adults with evil intentions in these studies.

The Children’s Rights Ombudsman warns parents – they should watch what children do on phones or tablets.

« For parents – seeing, watching what their children do, what those children do. Also conversations, the interpretation that no one has the right to see their body, that it is their body, private. It needs to be discussed very clearly in every family, » emphasized E. Žiobienė.

« Parents’ education, children’s education – maybe we would even start with their parents. They have to understand what their children are doing, where they are doing, how much time they spend in the internet, where they connect, what platforms, » ​​Mickiewicz emphasized.

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However, some politicians believe that educating parents alone is not enough. Lectures to give parents what to spend and do not – it is necessary, but it is also necessary to talk about restrictions.

« You need to think about both social network content filter and minor protection against harmful information. Starting with cell phones restriction in schools, » said Daiva Ulbinaitė, Member of the Seimas (TS-LKD).

The Ministry of the Interior with Children’s Porn hopes to fight the new Law on Crime Prevention. So far, this law has just been started, so the Ministry of Information is not providing it.

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However, psychiatrists suggest solving the problem very simply – not to give young children phones.

« We fly to technology with children too fast, losing their relationship and peace of mind. But if I had to answer as a child psychiatrist, I would say that up to eight, ten years should be removed, » said Linas Slušnys, a children’s psychiatrist.

A study in the United Kingdom found that about half of children before the thirteen had seen pornography. Similar figures should be in other Western countries. Because pornography is easily accessible and children like to imitate everything, the number of minors pornography is growing.