A mother describes how her autistic son became one of thousands of under-18s caught viewing or sharing indecent images of children
Louise* thought she had been open and clear with her two children about the dangers of the internet. But last year there was a knock on her door at 6am. It was the police looking for her 17-year-old son.
“There were five or six police coming up my stairs,” she says. “When they said they were looking for my son because of indecent images I thought I was going to pass out.
About Author
More Stories
Microsoft unveils chip it says could bring quantum computing within years
Virologist Wendy Barclay: ‘Wild avian viruses are mixing up their genetics all the time. It’s like viral sex on steroids’
If the best defence against AI is more AI, this could be tech’s Oppenheimer moment