"SHOCKING!" | Online Grooming Crimes At Record High In The UK

[@clivewalker5465]

If groomers and their Families had their benefits stopped , and deported , these evil crimes would end over night .

[@naebhor6931]

Grooming isn't exclusive to foreigners. Look at Mermaids and Stonewall. They're almost exclusively White and British.

[@HillbillyYEEHAA]

Naebhor6931, how would you know? The government refuse to release the total crime figures for foreigners

[@oldshiny3012]

what do you expect when they get zero time in prison for it , unlike if you say hurty words on the internet

[@wen55scott]

Samantha has it spot on regarding safeguarding and hypersexualisation

[@andybez5169]

There needs to be harsh sentences. People shouldn't walk away without a prison sentence for paedophilia

[@FortValance]

People shouldn't walk again if they touch a child

[@MrBlixxx]

I have a simple solution. Don't let your kids use social media. It's lazy and naive parenting.

[@jurgalt2005]

there are also hypersexualised billboards in the underground and on the streets, also sexual fetishes on billboards are exposed for all to see, so it is definitely not only social media. the problem is our society that is becoming more and more porn addicted and perverse.

[@petersusa4071]

You can add overly suggestive and explicit commercials on the TV. Britain needs to maintain the division between adult and children's media. It's all getting a bit sick.

[@FortValance]

Too many parents believe that being a good parent is based upon the materialistic items you provide for your child... In reality... any expensive item you buy for a child is unnecessary and detrimental to their development, attitude, behaviour and safety... Especially smartphones...

[@elbowdeep]

get your kids off the internet durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[@FortValance]

Finally... someone with a brain

[@naebhor6931]

If children weren't using sites for adults it wouldn't be so easy for predators to groom them. Most social media requires an age of at least 13, Snapchat was 16 or 18 last I checked, to make an account. By rights children shouldn't be on them. Where are the parents? It's not much different to children going to the pub or club exclusively for over 18's and people, almost always men, getting done for predatory offences when they're told the child is 18 by the child. Then there's the fact the real predators tend to use children's sites and even charities or educational events to groom them. Mermaids, Stonewall and Roblox spring to mind.

[@rtgh2010]

Could we have a break down based on ethnicity has a percentage to there population number.

[@user-ug8wx5er1w]

Imagine!

[@user-rp1td1qf7u]

barrow in furness was allegedly 200 people named by multiple girls as been one of their abusers, 200 in one town is bad enough until you factors in that’s it’s 200 from a total of 1200 people living in the full town who follow the same “Ideology”

[@andywilson9150]

100%

[@KarenShearer-j7v]

& yet no one will talk about it

[@kriptoow]

This society is not protecting our children, these weird men have no fear, they won’t be imprisoned…. No SM for children, if they do have it after a certain age ( 15-18) have their passwords, I did with my daughter, she hated me but she was under my roof and I paid for her phone, at 18 it was live an 18th gift and at that age they should be able to manage themselves!

[@MajesticJewnicorn]

Ban under 16s from using the internet. Go back to school homework back in my days whereby kids did homework using text books and printed materials from schools. Ban under 16s from owning smartphones and fine parents who provide these to their children. Abusers need to be punished but they just don't care about the punishment because they just want to carry on abusing kids. Hence why prevention is better than cure- kids don't need the internet. Kids managed just fine on call and text only phones and Freeview TV and playing with footballs and art materials growing up.

[@FortValance]

I've literally just posted the exact same comment as you without reading yours and almost word for word

[@christ4200]

Free Tommy Robinson.

[@PeterHolman-xt4fb]

Older people should be prosecuted for using on-line chat for under18s. They can't be using such platforms for anything but nefarious purposes. I know that identifying the originators of fake profiles is difficult but, is enough being done to protect youngsters? No one should be sending disrobed photographs on the internet. It was never thought of, when I was young. It's this reality TV thing that put these ideas in kids minds.

[@ilanraeayalabaciu2957]

"online chat for under 18's" what are you on about? That doesn't even exist. Children shouldn't be allowed anything other than a dumb phone not a smart phone until they are at least 17.

[@Laetitia-rc8sg]

I am more worried about fixed telephones. I have bad memories

[@user-ug8wx5er1w]

CAN WE SEE THE DEMOGRAPHICS?!? 😂

[@edenshorthousesthouse1925]

Its Snapchat just look through the camera

[@chloeew4627]

With all the warnings out there in the schools, media ect ,why the hell are these kids replying? Parents are not doing the job , you are not your kids mates , you are guardians . Also jack up the penalty for the slime doing this .

[@Vent330]

Who thinks that the authorities in the uk will come down hard on the Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs??? I suspect not many, sadly 😔

[@acesilver2227]

As an atheist I know believe that the devil is at work and has minions are perpetrating it

[@FortValance]

You identify as an atheist but believe in the devil? How can you refuse to acknowledge there's a God if you believe there's a devil? Strange

[@HaroonNawaz-h9w]

Disgusting