Telefono Arcobaleno International Observatory publishes the annual report on pedophilia on the internet
Rome, 9th February 2010 – Internet pedophilia increased by 16.5% over the last year; every day we see creation of 135 new pedophile sites on the Internet and three pedophile groups on social networks. This is the picture that emerged from the “14th Annual Report on Online Pedophilia” issued today by the Telefono Arcobaleno International Observatory which in 2009 made 49,393 reports in 35 countries. Online pedophilia involves increasingly younger children, only 1% of which are identified and freed; there is absolutely nothing virtual about this market, which actually exploits the photos and films of abuse and violent acts that actually happen. Just one pedophilia site generates over 100,000 customers ‐ 60% of whom are European. From a geographical viewpoint, Europe and the United States are leaders in terms of both diffusion and consumption of pedopornographic materials. Germany, Netherlands, Usa, Russia, Cyprus, Canada, Hungary, Switzerland, Spain and Thailand are at the ten chart positions of the countries that host the reported sites, of which over ten thousand are linked to pedo‐business, confirming the unquestionable commercial root of the greater part of online pedophilia activities. Pedophile websites visitors and users are prevalently American, German, English, Russian, Italian: a veritable army that moves daily on the internet hunting for pictures, videos, contacts. Nothing, unfortunately, has changed on the pedo‐business front, which seems an unstoppable machine and which confirms itself like the only sector of the new economy that hasn’t in the least suffered from the crisis and on the contrary proceeds with development rates to make your head spin. The offers’ qualification and differentiation is systematic, there is a continuous introduction into the market of new faces and new bodies, there is a massive use of every possible resource of direct and indirect promotion alike devising marketing plans that would be envied by the most prestigious multinationals. “The most worrying thing – states Giovanni Arena, President of Telefono Arcobaleno ‐ is that publicity for leading companies has recently appeared in the background of pictures child abuse, which is also a sign that online pedophilia is unpunished and tolerated to such an extent that it risks making the pedobusiness just another new economy”.