First, I think we should define what is Child Sexual Abuse.....
Any contact or interaction between a child and a more powerful person when the child is being used for the sexual gratification of the more powerful person. It can be physical, verbal or visual.
Physical - Touching private parts, fondling,making the child touch and/or manipulate the other's private body part,kissing, vaginal or anal intercourse or attempted intercourse.
Verbal - Obscene language, dirty jokes, cats calls.
Visual - Exhibitionism,peeping, voyeurism, showing and taking pornographic pictures, letting down the bars of privacy so that the child watches or hears sexual acts.
This morning, while i was working and had my messenger for a dating site stay online, one member ask me, "what do u think of the child sex on this site? seems allot going on." I proceeded to asking him if he is watching cams and he said "yes" so i proceeded to where he is pointing me and i was taken aghast when i saw what he was referring. A mother presumably,and a girl about 6 to 8 year old was on cam on safe web cams. They are both wearing scanty clothing, the mother wearing a white bra and a short or pantie i guess, i cant be more certain as i was more focused on the kid, wearing something like a beach wear in white same color with the mom. While her mom is exposing her breast and showing off her nipples, the child was also showing hers which is just plain flat and exposing that she is still really a child.I was more horrified when the mom started taking off the pantie of the kid. What a horrible thing she did, exposing the girl thingy, showing off her genitals to people watching on web cams, perhaps a very satisfying thing to perverts and child pedophiles but not to us people whose common responsibility is to create a culture where children are protected and human sexuality and relationship are valued.
Being sexually abused as a child could be devastating, depending on coping abilities and mental health of the child.
There is a variety of effects on children that could be cognitive, emotional or physical. The level of effect depends on the situation (age, duration and type of abuse, gender, degree of violence, who the offender is). Effects could be sexual misbehavior, homophobia, and fear of sex, shame, guilt, eating problems, interpersonal relationships, decision making problems, powerlessness, anger, depression, and suicide.
It really saddened me that people can do the worst to their kids just to get a meager pay for a show on web cams.And this also saddened me that people who have witnessed the act and can do something to stop this lewd acts of lasciviousness are just blindly ignoring what this simple show on cams can manifest on the mind of the kids and can exploit them and can be a big influence to their life in the future.
Perhaps its time that web cams should be censored and members in dating sites who are indulging in child prostitution and sexual child abuse should be banned. I appreciate that person.com are banning members who are showing their private parts on safe web cams and its a good gesture to keep the site respectable and segregate the ones who are showing their body in unsafe cams, but i am more concerned of the kids showing off in this site, i hope this problem be given a solution and can be prevented not to happen again. I find it so demeaning and so unbecoming and the people who put the kids into child prostitution should be punished and jailed.
