A report released by Britain's National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says that the largest number of sexual assaults against children were perpetrated by someone under the age of 18.
The NPCC said 52% of alleged offenders were children, compared with around one third a decade ago.
In the United States, that number jumps to 70%.
As much as 70% of child sexual abuse is perpetrated by other kids under the age of 18; and many of them are subjected to the same criminal consequences as adults.
The NPCC's child protection lead, Ian Critchley said,
This is predominantly a gender-based crime of boys committing offences against girls.
I think that is being exacerbated by the accessibility of violent pornography and the ease with which violent pornography is accessible to boys and, therefore, a perception that is [normal] behaviour, and that person can carry out that behaviour that they are seeing online in the most violent way against other peers as well.
Clearly the accessibility to smartphones has just rocketed, not just in relation to 11- to 16-year-olds, but in relation to under-10s as well. That accessibility has really exacerbated that and I think this is a debate that does need to be had in our society.
Stare directly at this line in case you need it repeated:
Boys are watching violent porn on their smartphones then going on to attack girls, police have said...
I think it's prudent to ask how boys learned to search for such things in the first place. After all, some of the "perpetrators" discussed in these articles are as young as four. I sincerely doubt a four-year-old is looking through pornography without some assistance.
Where are they getting these ideas?
Perhaps we should remind ourselves of the current zeitgeist in British and American education.
Here's a refresher of what kids are learning in schools these days:
The list could go on and on and on.
There are tons of new "consent" curriculum guides popping up for elementary kids; their sole purpose to teach children how to give or withhold consent for sexual contact, but developmentally it is impossible that they will understand the repercussions of being in a situation having to give or withhold consent until they're an adult in therapy taking anti-anxiety pills.
The access tech gives us these days is a problem; an even bigger problem is the way our children are being taught to think about sex.
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