Original sentence: A recent study in Ireland, undertaken by Garda, revealed the most serious content in a sample of over 100 cases involving indecent images of children.Dennis Howitt (1995) disagrees with such research, explaining the weakness of correlational studies.He argues that "one cannot simply take evidence that offenders use and buy pornography as sufficient to implicate pornography causally in their offending.In 44% of cases, the most serious images depicted nudity or erotic posing, in 7% they depicted sexual activity between children, in 7% they depicted non-penetrative sexual activity between adults and children, in 37% they depicted penetrative sexual activity between adults and children, and in 5% they depcited sadism or bestiality.In contrast, the United Kingdom Children's charity NCH have stated that demand for child pornography on the Internet has led to an increase in sex abuse cases, though this conflicts with the Office for National Statistics's 2007 report on Child Protection Registers, which shows a decrease of approximately 27% in the number of sexually abused children between 2003 and 2007 on the register.Some people excuse their abuse of children by blaming their exposure to child pornography; According to the New York Times, "At least some men convicted of sexual abuse say that child pornography from the Internet fueled their urges.Substantiated cases of child sexual abuse in the US declined dramatically in number between 1992 and (at least) 1998.. A substantial decline also appears to have occurred in Australia.The most reasonable assessment based on the available research literature is that the relationship between pornography, fantasy and offending is unclear
Edited sentence: According to the New York Times, "At least some men convicted of sexual abuse say that child pornography from the Internet fueled their urges