Child-porn spam: More aggressive

In the Internet Age, children's first exposure to sexuality often happens when they stumble on something in email or on the Web. Sgt. Paul Gillespie of the Toronto Police sex crimes unit reiterates that in a Toronto Sun article about a particularly egregious example: a piece of spam email in circulation with horrific child-porn images (not just links) right in the body of an email that has nothing in its subject line - "just the latest in an increasingly aggressive campaign by online marketers of child porn." Canada's child-exploitation hotline, Cybertip.ca, has received at least 10 reports about this email, according to the Sun. "About half of all child pornography complaints received by Cybertip.ca is related to email spam," it adds. If your kids have email accounts, tell them to be sure to delete immediately, never open, any emails from anyone they don't know because they increasingly contain pictures no child should ever have to see. At the bottom of the Sun article are tips about what to do if you ever do receive such an email. [Thanks to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (which runs the US equivalent of Cyberip.ca - CyberTipline.com (800.843.5678) - for pointing this piece out.]