Child abuse: use of fake pictures for investigators soon legal

Investigators demand - for example after the case of abuse of Lügde in North Rhine-Westphalia - again and again to legalize the so-called chastity test. This refers to the own uploading of relevant material, because this is usually the condition to be granted access to corresponding closed forums.

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Under certain circumstances, the upload should therefore be allowed in the future, which provides for a supplement to the bill against the so-called cybergrooming, which has sent the Federal Ministry of Justice to the parliamentary groups in the Bundestag. The condition is that no actual events are reproduced and no image acquisition of a child or adolescent has been made, it says in the text.

Accordingly, computer-generated images would be allowed. In addition, "the clarification of the facts must be otherwise hopeless or much more difficult," they say. In the event of imminent danger, according to the Ministry, instead of the approval of a judge, the approval of a public prosecutor is sufficient.

In Australia, the approach is already practiced and has released there a pedophile ring. The law against cybergrooming, ie against the targeted addressing of children on the Internet for abuse purposes, will be passed in the Bundestag next week. In the future, it will also be punishable for a potential offender to chat with a covert investigator instead of a child.

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