The term child pornography (KiPo) refers to the depiction of sexual acts by and on children, which are punished with high penalties in almost all legal systems.
Descriptions of the crime:
The pornographic depiction of sexual abuse of children under the age of 14 is known as child pornography. This refers to the documented sexual exploitation of boys and girls in the form of sound, images and writing, which causes lasting damage to life.
Children are degraded by adults as mere sex objects for other adults and thus only serve the pure stimulation and financial interests of the perpetrators.
The depictions include sexual acts by children on themselves, by children on each other, by children on animals, by children on adults and by adults on children; this with all imaginable or even unimaginable sexual practices.
Child pornography is in circulation in all forms (films, videos, data carriers, drawings, photos, sound recordings and printed matter) and is distributed in a variety of ways (mailing, delivery, Internet).
This means that laypeople are now able to spread these on a mass scale. Once these are in circulation, they no longer disappear, but are copied, recomposed and distributed many times over.
For the victims, this means that they are confronted with this throughout their lives - even as adults - and it is difficult or almost impossible for the victims to process and overcome these acts.
Legal situation (Germany):
Who child pornography
• owns, e.g. has the corresponding material on data carriers, video cassettes, printed matter, etc.,
• disseminates, i.e. passes on relevant material to others, be it from hand to hand or via data networks,
• makes it accessible, e.g. shows relevant material to other people,
• obtains, e.g. buys, exchanges or downloads relevant material from the Internet,
• produces, i.e. - apart from the direct documentation of sexual abuse of children - e.g. copies corresponding representations onto data storage devices or other media,
is punishable under Section 184 of the Criminal Code.
The police advise:
If you find child pornographic material online or receive it by email, the police advise you to report it immediately to the nearest office, because the same applies here: demand regulates supply and only if you take action against it can you stop it.
How to report child pornography to the police
If you happen to come across a website with child pornography content and you want to view it online:
• Please inform the police station responsible for your place of residence or the state criminal investigation office in your federal state immediately about the address of this page.
• Then clear the cache memory in your browser.
•If you have found child pornography in a newsgroup and want to view it via the Internet:
• Write down the name of the newsgroup, the subject of the corresponding article (possibly with the number) and the author and pass this on to the police station responsible for your place of residence or to the state criminal investigation office in your federal state.
•If you have been sent child pornography images or video files as part of an IRC chat and you would like to view them via the Internet:
• You should make a so-called WHOIS query about the sender (enter “/whois” or “/dns” using the keyboard) and immediately submit this information as well as the chat log with the incriminated image or images to your place of residence forward it to the responsible police station or to the state criminal investigation office in your federal state. The disseminator can usually be identified beyond doubt via the IP number.
•If you have mistakenly downloaded child pornographic image or video files while using a file sharing program and would like to view them via the Internet:
• The technically savvy Internet user should determine the IP (Internet Protocol Number) of the computer from which the file came.
• Normally you should notify the local police authority immediately so that evidence can be collected from there. To protect yourself from “unpleasant surprises,” it can help to limit the file types you want to search for beforehand.
If you have been sent unsolicited child pornography via email and you would like to view it via the Internet:
• Send the email and attachment to the police station responsible for your place of residence or to the state criminal investigation office in your federal state and then delete the message from your hard drive. (Source: http://www.polizei-beratung.de )
To avoid delays, you should contact your local police station or the state criminal police office responsible for you directly.
Avoid doing your own research!
All data e.g. B. a homepage are at least loaded into the temporary memory of the Internet user's PC when they are read or viewed - so you come into their possession at that moment.
If the images are child pornographic writings or images, the user could be committing a criminal offense.
In order to protect themselves from the threat of criminal prosecution, every Internet user should generally refrain from accessing and even more so from storing child pornographic images.
Distinction between child and youth pornography:
(Sources:
https://www.berlin.de/polizei/dienststellen/landeskritikamt/lka-1/artikel.148846.php#Hinweis
https://www.polizei.sachsen.de/de/6945.htm )
Author: Mike S. – mimikama
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