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Petition Legal Protection for children under age of 16 sending images to sexual predators

Police are threatening to charge children for creating and disturbing child pornography when sending images of themselves to sexual predators thats grooming real children.

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Parents are now not willing to report online child sexual exploitation crimes because of fears teens will be arrested. Currently only chikdren under the age of 13 is protected from Child porn crimes when images are off themselves.

Why should our children face charges because someone groomed them into sending images.

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13 signatures

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Date closed 21 August 2018
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