What WILL it take for Google to block child porn? Jailed for life yesterday, April Jones’s murderer is the latest child killer to use the internet to fuel his perversion. John Carr of the Children’s Charities’ Coalition on Internet Safety said: ‘If these images were not available on the internet then men like Hazell and Bridger might not go on to kill.
- Mark Bridger had a sickening library of violent child pornography
- Follows revelation that Tia Sharp’s killer downloaded child abuse images
- Calls for search sites to crack down on how paedophiles can feed fantasies
- April’s parents sat silently during verdicts – Bridger nodded and stared up
- Murderer given rare ‘whole-life’ prison term, meaning he will never leave jail
- Judge calls him ‘paedophile’ with ‘sexual and morbid fantasies about girls’
Daily Mail Online Story by Paul Bentley, Paul Harris and Keith Gladdis. 30 May 2013.
Google and Microsoft last night faced demands to act over the shocking ease with which child killer Mark Bridger used the internet to fuel his perversion.
Bridger, sentenced yesterday to spend the rest of his life in jail for murdering five-year-old April Jones, had a sickening library of violent child pornography.
It follows the revelation that Stuart Hazell, the man convicted earlier this month of killing 12-year-old Tia Sharp, regularly downloaded child abuse images on his mobile phone.
Children’s charities and online protection experts are now calling for search sites to crack down on the way paedophiles can feed their fantasies with simple online searches.
Bridger used the search engines Google and Bing, which is owned by Microsoft, to look up terms including ‘naked five-year-old girls’, ‘nudism five-year-olds’ and ‘pictures of naked virgin teens’.
He also used Facebook to access photographs of local girls, including April and her half-sisters aged 13 and 16, and went online to save images of murdered Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
Child safety charities, including the NSPCC, demanded that the internet giants introduce immediate controls to stop paedophiles gaining access to child pornography.
John Carr of the Children’s Charities’ Coalition on Internet Safety said: ‘If these images were not available on the internet then men like Hazell and Bridger might not go on to kill.