Cyber Child Pornography: An Unexpected Global Heinous Crime Against Children

Abstract

Children are naïve and innocent and often cannot understand the cyber security and threats. Cyber child pornography is the abuse of a child in a sexually explicit act online through images, audios, written forms, or videos that is unexpected and unwanted. It is now available in many different ways, such us pop-up adverts, websites, internet searches, emails, etc. It is a threat to internet users all over the world, and is considered as a heinous crime in most of the countries. It is increasing at an alarming rate in society due to a sizable profit of the pornographers. At present the size of the global pornography industry is more than $100 billion per year. It is necessary the detection, investigation, prevention, prosecution, and punishment for cyber child pornography actively in due time. Cyber child pornography is a global dreadful crime and hence, strong laws must be established for combating it.