When specific legal regulations are developed, they must respond to the social reality experienced at that particular time, in this sense child grooming means sexual assaults on minors over the Internet.
Currently, there is a comprehensive regulation that addresses this issue due to the expansion of such crimes.
- As everyone knows.
- The Internet has changed society.
- Digital development and technological advances are occurring at an ever faster pace.
- Therefore.
- Many of them pose serious challenges to the law.
In fact, some have already begun to talk about the existence of fourth generation rights to refer to people born in the digital age, with this, for example, we would also like to refer to privacy laws related to the right to privacy.
In the “age of cyberspace,” the reality of child readiness, defined as child sexual harassment, has been effectively detected and revealed.
The succession of crimes and the relevance of the consequences that these cases have engendered require criminal regulation that promotes quick and definitive solutions.
Child cyberbullying defines the new tactic with which many paedophiles try to contact their potential victims, mainly due to the almost abusive use of mobile phones and computers.
These instruments include high quality cameras. As a result, the possibility to send personal images over the Internet is increasingly accessible to young people, a situation that is stimulated by networks such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or Twitter, among others.
In this context, paedophiles can choose their next victim through thousands of profiles, in this case, especially the most vulnerable group, which includes children between the ages of ten and fifteen.
Over the Internet, paedophiles can create serious sexual harassment situations and some can become a real-life reality. All these assumptions have serious consequences for victims; minors who do not yet have a trained personality, being very emotionally vulnerable.
These stalkers often belong to a certain age group: between the ages of thirty and fifty, although they seem normal, are insecure, immature and have serious difficulties in establishing social relations, as well as having a serious personality mismatch.
Currently, parents and authorities are paying more attention to the prevention of such crimes. After a November 2002 study on “Child Safety and Children’s Internet Habits,” people began paying more attention to child readiness.
The study found that 44% of children who regularly sailed had been sexually harassed on the Internet at some point, of which 11% admitted to being victims of this situation on several occasions.
For example, criminal measures have been sought against child pornography on the Internet.
In Brazil, the law stipulates that every child must have the same rights as adults and that they must receive special attention from the family and society as a whole, because they need to grow and develop in a safe, healthy and happy way.
To do this, it is important to know a little about the Federal Constitution and the main laws for the protection of children and adolescents.
It is worth reading some specific information on the subject in the Federal Constitution (art. 227), in the condition of the child and adolescent (Law 8. 069 / 1990, with amendments to Law 11. 829 / 2008), in the Penal Code (Articles 213, 214, 217, 218 and 234).
New technologies have led to a change in the way we communicate, but we must also be careful, as phenomena such as child grooming can endanger those we love the most.
The establishment of virtual communication spaces has had very positive effects, but in some respects it has led to new dangerous situations.
To effectively combat pedophilia, and in particular child grooming, it is necessary to be aware of this reality. Stay informed and inform children of the danger that certain behaviors and neglected use of the Internet can cause.