Saving our children from other children

This blog entry talks about protecting our children.  Well, what about protecting our children from other children who are helping sexual predators out?   

This most recent sexually explicit topic in the news, caught my attention as a cyber porn student talking about indecency and obscenity.  The story of a young California teenager named Justin Berry  is considerably different from what one might expect about a teenager.  Justin made $100’s of thousands of dollars by going online with his web cam and chatting with others. 

One day Justin was online chatting with seemingly friendly adults when one asked him to take his shirt off for $50.  Confused but interested, Justin did so and the rest is history.  This young kid started showing himself doing sexually explicit things for paying viewers.  These viewers, almost all of them being older adult males, paid Justin money for over five years.  These men, found out to be lawyers, teachers and others who are around children daily, ended up paying Justin several $100,000.  This kid was making money and kind of viewed everything as a joke and not that these men were sick deranged animals. 

Recently, Justin has come clean about his lucrative business.  He explained the every growing websites of young children getting paid to perform sexually in front on an online audience.  Justin had as many as 1500 paying customers viewing him and said these websites have schedules for the customers to know when the next sexual act was being performed.  He told police all that he had knew as well as the customer’s information.  With background checks done, anybody who paid, produced, advertised or in any way associated with this despicable form of child porn, could have charges filed against.  Justin had come full circle from producing to helping in the prosecuting of these sexual predators. 

I have to admit; when I first read this article my first impression was that this kid wasn’t really doing anything wrong.  The people viewing this material were and Justin was just making money.  However, looking into it further I feel that Justin should be held accountable.  Ultimately, he was producing child porn and this is obscene and illegal.  The viewers and subscribers to his websites should all be held responsible and have criminal charges against them, as well as Justin.  I know that people will say he was too young to know what was going on, but was he?  I think that you know what your doing if your making several $100,000.  Maybe he shouldn’t have criminal charges but he should have to pay a fine, or some kind of restitution to make up for his wrong doing.  He helped “sickos” get off that could spiral down and cause these ill-minded men to possibly commit sexual crimes.  He was helping out sexual predators who like little children.  Whenever that is done, all people should be in trouble and have justice served against them.   

All in all, this kid knew what he was doing and was doing something so obscene, that it needs to be taken care of.  Congress should address this situation quickly and with harsh punishments that will deter people from being any part of child porn and hopefully bring it to an end.