'Huge' Market for Child Porn Victimizes Younger Kids
By Monisha Bansal
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
April 07, 2006
(CNSNews.com) - The "shockingly huge consumer market" for child pornography is increasingly centered around very young children, some as young as 18 months old, according to the chairman of a group dedicated to preventing the exploitation of children.During a Thursday news conference in Washington, D.C., Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer, chairman of the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) also said there are currently only five countries on earth that sufficiently outlaw child pornography -- Australia, Belgium, France, South Africa and the United States.
"The laws around the world are alarmingly insufficient to fight this epidemic," said Cardon. "This is simply not acceptable" ICMEC states that 95 countries have no laws against child pornography and another 63 have inadequate laws to combat child porn.Cardon warned of a "growing phenomenon," in which the victims of child pornographers are younger and younger. "It is no longer the case of a 14 year old girl, or a 6 year old boy, but of an 18 month old baby," he said.
According to NCMEC, 83 percent of individuals arrested for possessing child pornography had images of children six to 12 years old, 39 percent had images of children three to five years old and 19 percent had images of infants and toddlers under the age of three.
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