Hardly any crime has become as fashionable on the Internet as viewing raped and abused children. The Federal Criminal Police Office discovered 42,075 so-called depictions of abuse online in 2022 – or received corresponding information from friendly secret services. That was seven percent more than the year before. If you also include the young people who were forced to perform sexual acts or provocative nudity in front of the camera, the number rose to almost 50,000 underage victims. Since 2018, the cases have increased twelvefold, it is a terrible result. And now? Should the penalty for child pornography be reduced, of all things.
Child pornography needs to be punished differently – opinion
