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Parents/Carers News

29 January 2025

A catfishing paedophile jailed for targeting more than 30 children online has had his sentence increased.

Daniel Lee, 29, solicited sexual photos and videos from girls as young as 12 on social media and pretended to be a teenage girl to get images from boys, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

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23 January 2025

Ofcom has today fined video sharing platform, MintStars Ltd, £7,000 for failing to adequately protect children from accessing online pornography.

Under existing laws which pre-date the Online Safety Act, UK-established video-sharing platforms (VSPs) are required to have measures in place to protect under-18s from videos containing restricted material, including pornography.

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17 January 2025

The teenager sentenced to six years in prison for crimes including encouraging suicide and possessing terrorist materials and indecent images of children was part of an international online network promoting neo-Nazi and satanist beliefs, who film and share acts of extreme violence.

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04 January 2025

After demanding the release of Tommy Robinson from prison, the Tesla billionaire has posted a series of messages accusing Sir Keir Starmer of failing to prosecute gangs that systematically groomed and raped young girls, and calling for safeguarding minister Jess Phillips to be jailed.

He also suggested safeguarding minister Jess Phillips “deserves to be in prison” after she rejected a request for the Home Office to order a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham.

The decision was criticised by several senior Tories, despite the previous Conservative government turning down a similar request in 2022.

Musk accused Phillips of being a “rape genocide apologist” on Friday (3/1)

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