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Melinda Tankard Reist – Impact of Sexualised Imagery. RadioNZ Interview

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Originally aired on Sunday Morning, Sunday 13 September 2015

[An interview every porn promoter should listen to very carefully and thoughfully]

International advocate against the sexual exploitation of women and children, Melinda Tankard Reist discusses the pervasive influence of sexualised imagery in popular culture.

Full Interview here: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/201770434/melinda-tankard-reist-impact-of-sexualised-imagery

Further reading:

See: http://www.tearfund.org.nz/melinda-tour/

https://www.spcs.org.nz/girl4u-underage-sex-auckland-businessman-pimp-charged-for-sex-exploitation/

https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/news-events-and-notices/news/news-2015/06/study-reveals-the-sad-secret-world-of-child-prostitution.html

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/-kids-selling-themselves-for-sex-from-12-nz-s-secret-world-of-child-prostitution-q00420

Tougher laws on sexual exploitation of children

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Sexual exploitation of children will be punished more severely after a new law passed a final parliamentary hurdle.

Those found to have supplied, distributed or made an “objectionable material” face a maximum 14 years in prison, up from 10.

The penalty for possession, import and export also increases, from five years to 10.

And those convicted of a child exploitation material offence will almost certainly go to jail, under the Objectionable Publications and Indecency Legislation Bill.

The bill also targets paedophiles who attempt to “groom” under-16s online by establishing a new offence of “indecent communication with a young person”.

It will apply to texts, verbal and any other communications.

And it closes a legal loophole, ensuring that Kiwis who assist foreigners in sexual exploitation of children overseas can be prosecuted here. [Read more…]

Revealed: Millionaire drug addict Mark Lyon convicted of sex charges

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Millionaire drug addict Mark Lyon can be revealed as the 59-year-old businessman convicted of a range of drug and sex offences last year, including offences against girls as young as 14.

Name suppression lapsed at 5pm today, exposing Lyon as using methamphetamine to exploit sex acts from girls – and carrying out a prolonged punishment assault against a woman shackled in a “dungeon”.

The woman’s agony through the sexual assault was such she begged Lyon to rape her so it would be over.

Lyon was sentenced to 15 years in jail in December in the High Court at Auckland with a minimum of eight years to be served before a parole hearing. He stood trial with a woman aged 20 who was also found guilty on charges of getting Lyon young girls for his sexual gratification.

The prison sentence brings to an end the millionaire property developer’s public fall from grace. He went from being one of the city’s most insightful businessmen to someone immersed in drug culture and preyed on by gang members.

The charges came after a police raid on a 29-apartment building owned by Lyon in Eden Terrace which he used to house associates and friends immersed in the same lifestyle.

Police had unpicked the case after Lyon’s co-accused – conflicted over her role – told a youth aid officer Lyon was using her to get young girls for sex. [Read more…]

Sexual perverts act as predators by ‘sextorting’ kids online

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Online predators are increasingly resorting to “sextortion” – blackmailing child victims into providing explicit images.

Internet safety watchdogs say they are seeing new trends in the methods used to extort kids as young as eight into sending pictures of themselves to perverts, who often masquerade as youngsters online. [Read more…]

Kiwis bombard banned child-porn websites

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Millions of Kiwis are bombarding blacklisted child-sex-abuse sites to request access to illegal videos and photos.

Experts say New Zealanders seeking child pornography are increasingly demanding younger victims and more violent abuse.

“Some people confuse these images as being virtual, but they are real images, they are crime scenes,” said Alan Bell, national director of ECPAT, which is dedicated to ending the commercial sexual exploitation of kids. [Read more…]