Experts tackling porn on the Net.A major conference aimed at tackling Internet child sex abuse was being held in Middlesbrough today.Children's charity Barnardo's wants the 'Altered Images' conference to explore latest developments in the prevention and detection of paedophilia paedophilia or US pedophilia Noun the condition of being sexually attracted to children [Greek pais, paid- child + philos loving] Noun 1. on the internet. Police, Internet experts and Barnardo's bosses will speak at the conference, being held at the charity's Bridgeway project, which works with children who have been sexually abused. The aims of the conference will be to discuss the detection of Internet sexual abuse, consider what is needed to assess the problem and then intervene and analyse current and planned legal solutions to abuse through the Internet. Among the guest speakers will be Tink Palmer, formerly manager of Bridgeway, but now Barnardo's national principal policy and practice officer and Wendy Shepherd, who runs Barnardo's Teesside-based Sexually Exploited Children On the Streets (SECOS) Project which works with children abused through prostitution. Other speakers include Dr Alisdair Gillespie of the University of Teesside The University of Teesside, based in Middlesbrough, UK, has a student body of 20,685 students as of 2005. Recording rises in applications of 11.4%/2.5% for degree courses beginning in 2005/2006 respectively has given Teesside, for two years running, the highest such percentage , a member of the Government's Internet Task Force on Child Protection, and Sgt Paul Higgins Paul Higgins (Born - January 13, 1962 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada) is a retired Canadian Professional Hockey Right Winger who played 2 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs. of Cleveland Police's vice squad vice squad n. A police division charged with enforcement of laws dealing with various forms of vice, such as gambling and prostitution. vice squad Noun . The conference comes after police arrested 24 people on Teesside as part of an international probe into Internet child porn codenamed Operation Ore. Those arrested as part of the swoop come from all walks of life and the majority have no previous involvement with the police. |
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