A siege is underway at a house in Sunnybank in Brisbane's south. Police are negotiating with an armed man. Other occupants are inside the house. Follow our live coverage for the latest news on the coronavirus pandemic. A mother who sent photographs and video of her two naked daughters to their dance teacher has told an inquiry that she feared he would destroy their dancing prospects. From February , the woman's two daughters, who were as young as nine at the time, did up to 40 hours of dance classes a week, and Davies and the mother began sending online messages to each other. After her own aspirations to be a dancer never materialised, she said she felt excited for her daughters' futures. The woman wept as she told the hearing she sent the first inappropriate video of her daughter, who was 10 at the time, to Davies in Her eldest daughter was "only in a G-string, mucking around with a feather boa".
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Sterling Mervyn Free, 27, was jailed for eight years in October after he kidnapped and sexually assaulted a seven-year-old girl. A predator and father-of-two who kidnapped a seven-year-old girl at Kmart and molested her in nearby bushland watched child porn before the horror attack. Sterling Mervyn Free, 27, was jailed for eight years in October, with a Queensland judge describing his crime as 'abhorrent' and 'every parent's worse nightmare'. Free will be eligible for parole from August 10, , just two-and-a-half years after he was first locked up. In the Queensland Court of Appeal, Crown Prosecutor Carl Heaton QC said the release date was too soon for someone who admitted to watching porn moments before the terrifying attack. A psychology report presented in court showed Free's history of struggling with lack of impulse control. He also said that Free had previously mentioned he was attracted to children and his lack of control was a danger to society. Mr Free appears to have increasingly viewed paedophile imagery or struggled with such ideation prior to the offence The little girl was searching the toy aisles for a present while her mother stood nearby, when the predator led her away.
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This resource sheet provides information about safety and good practice when images of children and young people are displayed online. It outlines the legal obligations for Internet users who post images of children and young people on the Internet, and some of the emerging issues associated with the displaying of online images by children and young people. Guidance is also provided for supporting children and young people to be safe online. Throughout this paper, a child or young person refers to a person under the age of 18 years. The Internet has become a popular communication tool for children and young people, as well as adults, businesses and organisations. There are a range of reasons why people or organisations might wish to publish images of people online, including for recording, documenting and advertising or for promoting an organisation's activities and experiences. Organisations involved with children and young people, such as sporting and performing arts groups, often include photos or visual recordings of children and young people on their websites to promote their activities or services. Many children and young people also share images of themselves and their friends on social networking websites such as Facebook, and on their own blogs and web pages. The accessibility of the Internet and the increasing popularity of social networking sites for both young people and adults has made the sharing and disseminating of images very easy.
Michael Oghia was on a Zoom videoconference with about 20 climate activists last week when someone hijacked the presenter's screen to show a video of explicit pornography involving an infant. What the hell did I just see? Oghia's call had been "zoombombed" with images of child sexual abuse. He's unsure whether it was a video or a livestream. It left him feeling traumatized and unable to sleep. Oghia's experience is an extreme example of what people who track and try to stop child abuse and the dissemination of child pornography say is a flood of child sexual exploitation material that has risen during the coronavirus pandemic. And with tech companies' moderation efforts also constrained by the pandemic, distributors of child sexual exploitation material are growing bolder, using major platforms to try to draw audiences. Some platforms are warning users that when they report questionable or illegal content, the company may not be able to quickly respond. Full coverage of the coronavirus outbreak. Distributors of child sexual abuse images are trading links to material in plain sight on platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using coded language to evade the companies' detection tools, according to child safety experts and law enforcement.
