The public will be better protected from vile online pornography under new Government amendments tabled to the Crime and Policing Bill.
Building on the Government’s work to tackle violence against women and girls, pornography depicting illegal sexual conduct between family members and adults roleplaying as children will be criminalised, News Cover reports, citing the UK government's official website.
The first of these vital measures will ban anyone from possessing or publishing harmful pornography that shows incest between family members, and sex between step or foster relations where one person is pretending to be under 18.
A further amendment will criminalise the publication and possession of pornography where an adult is roleplaying as a child.
Delivered with the support of many brave campaigners and advocates for change, both amendments recognise that this revolting online content risks normalising child sexual abuse. Each new offence comes with a maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment for publication.
These crucial changes are the latest measures from the Government to halve violence against women and girls in a decade and protect children from scourge of sexual abuse.
