A government expert reporting to M.P.s says sexual abuse of children by children is rife throughout Britain. “Deputy Children’s Commissioner Sue Berelowitz said there isn’t a town, village or hamlet in which children are not being sexually exploited,” reports the Mail Online.

These horrible crimes are being blamed on youth access to “extreme” Internet porn.

Berelowitz explained on June 12 that many depraved sex attacks are being carried out by youth who have had their minds warped by online porn. She told the M.P.s that Internet porn has affected children’s threshold of what they think is normal.

She expressed great concern about what Internet porn was doing to vulnerable young minds. Some boys involved in sex exploitation of young girls said, “[It] was like being in a porn movie.” She explained that these boys have watched things and then acted them out.

Berelowitz backs the Mail’s campaign for controls to make it harder for youngsters to access pornographic images on computers. In addition, she backs a new “opt in” system where access to porn is blocked by the Internet service provider unless parents specifically request otherwise.

Currently the “opt in” system is being resisted by Internet companies because of the profits gained from porn site advertising.

Berelowitz believes that parents need to recognize that children cannot only access porn from their computers but also from their mobile, or cell, phones. She wants all parents to understand that young people are also using social websites and mobile phones to organize sexual attacks.

She said the sexual exploitation is so bad that victims are numbering in the thousands, not hundreds. In addition, sex acts being done are sadistic, violent and very ugly. She told the M.P.s that “what is being done is so terrible that people need to lay aside their denial” or risk victims being disbelieved.

Certainly pornography is a scourge in our society. Internet providers bear responsibility for disseminating such trash. Yet, what is the real cause of this horrible social problem in Britain? Here is what we published in the July Trumpet print edition:

Traced to its origins, every social problem facing Britain (and America) is the result of some form of family dysfunction. Gang violence and general street crime; sexual perversion and promiscuity; unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease; rape and sexual abuse; fatherlessness/single motherhood and the resultant exploitation of the welfare system; divorce and its many costly byproducts—each stems from the dissolution of the traditional family!We are decades deep into a cultural war on traditional marriage, on the roles of the mother and especially the father, and on the role of children within a family. We have tossed aside traditional laws and virtues regarding marriage and family, many of which were gleaned from the Bible, and replaced them with perverted, anti-family “values.” The results are obvious. As Herbert W. Armstrong wrote in The Missing Dimension in Sex, “Since it is a basic truism that a solid family structure is the foundational bulwark of any stable and permanent society, this fact means only one thing—civilization as we know it is on the way down—and out ….”Is there a better way to describe a nation in which millions of teens are allowed to go online and in the privacy of their own bedrooms explore the “whole history of human sexual perversion”? We have a bigger problem on our hands than the content policies of irresponsible Internet providers. We have to fix our broken families.

Be sure to read the entire article, “Why British Teens Struggle With Online Pornography.”