Quickly shared on WhatsApp because it looks so weird: According to the Federal Criminal Police Office, young people often share child pornography without thinking about it.
The BKA is currently investigating 21 young people who shared child pornography. A spokeswoman stated that minors in particular often share this content without giving sufficient thought to its child pornography nature .
Nevertheless, it is being investigated and not trivialized. The Federal Criminal Police Office also published a status report on Facebook that once again drew attention to the issue. The message reads:
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The BKA informs:
The distribution of child pornography is not a trivial matter, but a serious crime!
❌ A new, international phenomenon can be observed, especially via messenger services and on social networks: the forwarding of videos with sexual acts by children. These files are often distributed without reflection because the distributors find the representations, which are often subsequently accompanied by music or noises, funny.
❌ The people shown repeatedly become victims due to the spread. In the worst case, these are child victims of abuse by adult perpetrators who are confronted with it again and again as a result of the referral.
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❌ On October 23, 2019, the Frankfurt am Main Public Prosecutor's Office, the BKA and the police authorities of the federal states searched the homes of 22 suspects in eleven federal states on suspicion of possession of child pornography and seized numerous pieces of evidence, in particular computers, smartphones and data carriers.
❌ What these cases have in common is that the senders - mostly young people, but also young adults - are mostly not clear about the consequences for themselves or the recipients.
Therefore: Stop forwarding and do not participate in the distribution!
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Students sent child pornography via WhatsApp!
In a school in Stuttgart, young people shared child pornographic content via WhatsApp. Now the police seized the cell phones of an entire class. The police have no information as to which school the incident occurred in! The students are now facing charges of possession of child pornography.
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