A warning has been issued over children copying sex acts and abusive sexual behaviour after viewing pornography online. The second of a series of reports exploring the impact on children has found that young people are imitating abusive and demeaning sexual acts depicted in internet videos.
Some children have been subjected to sexual degradation at the hands of other youngsters, including strangulation, choking or slapping, the Children's Commissioner for England found. Read more: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community A review of police transcripts also found instances of both police and children drawing direct links between the incident of abuse and the abuser’s exposure to pornography.
In several interviews, children who had harmed acknowledged that their exposure to pornography was excessive or unhealthy. Two children who had been harmed said that they felt they had been treated 'like a porn star' by their abuser.
Children’s Commissioner for England Dame Rachel de Souza says that 'no child should be able to access or watch pornography' and it's time to 'turn the tide' on the harm it's doing to them.
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