Tony Blair has told reporters in Downing Street the Northern Ireland government can now be properly re-established. Move computers from children's bedrooms, parents urged Parents should make children move computers from their bedrooms in a bid to stamp out child abuse on the internet. The Internet Crime Forum's report is aimed at combating paedophiles in cyber space who win children's trust on the web and lure them into abuse. Chat rooms should be monitored by police-vetted staff who can watch out for perverts on the web, and these sites should be granted a kite mark or seal of approval as a guide line for parents, it says. The study, entitled Chat Wise, Street Wise, found five million young people are online in the UK and a quarter of all children use chat rooms, a special kind of website where they can have typed conversations with strangers.
Paedophiles use the rooms to groom children for abuse by pretending to be teenagers themselves.
He was jailed for five years in October. The computer is nearly always put in the wrong place - in the kiddies' bedroom. It is then not a family pursuit. The child is to a degree abandoned to look at the Internet themselves. Mr Akerman admitted police faced very difficult restrictions when they tried to prosecute internet paedophiles because the law indicates that physical contact must take place.