Child pornography is shadow that hangs over the daily lives of children and adolescents digital revealing the existence of ill-intentioned people, the "cyber pedophiles," and the close relationship that our children develop the prohibited content, largely exposed in Internet, without censorship.

The Ibope / NetRacings found that in February of this year 1.3 million Brazilians from 6 to 11 years accessed the Internet. The average stay of these children in the network was 9 hours and 53 minutes. Adolescents between 12 to 17 years, 2.4 million of the total, remained 38 hours and 17 minutes. This means that as you read this article, thousands of young people are connecting your computer to play games, exchange instant messages, access fotoblogs and Orkut, which houses many communities pedophile.

In our culture, sexual preference for children is considered a psychological disorder. The practice of pedophilia is classified as a crime and the internet can be a social engineering attack. The choice / approaching a target, the achievement of acclimation and development of trust and complicity are some practical characteristics of this type of attack. The profile of the pedophile is a person who likes to tell history, patience and love has become important in the lives of children, which makes it very dangerous.

Anything can happen: if the disclosure of personal information to supply the password to get a picture that has an executable program that activates the webcam, which will capture images of the adolescent in the intimacy of your room without notice to him. Thus, the adolescent is in the hands of the pedophile, who is using methods of coercion to achieve their goals.

The pass between friends, images of sex with children, a crime provided for in the Statute of Children and Adolescents with penalty of up to four years of exclusion. Many children make use of the material to satisfy their curiosity, not knowing that this approach presents risks. The use of the anonymity of the Internet and the speed of the information these risks and maximize the Internet turns into a paradise for pedophiles. The laws of the Internet crimes are still soft and it seems that the shadow hanging over the impunity of acts committed by many "cyberpedófílos.

There is no law requiring providers to open the register of clients, the federal police to investigate cases of pedophilia say that looking on the internet is a pedophile look like needle in haystack. The identification of a computer on the network is difficult because it may change when the computer is connected.

It is important that parents are aware that child pornography and pedophiles are, and thus should be treated without prejudice. See that the Internet is vulnerable to these threats and risks to their children, should participate actively in guiding these children. "Parents should not offend or take punishment," says Oswaldo Rodrigues Jr., president of the Brazilian Society for Studies in Human Sexuality. Adolescents are quick to deal with the computer, and when deprived of browse for prohibited content, ultimately awakening their curiosity even more and are able to circumvent filters and protections established or start to use the computer of friends.

There are many sites that try to help parents protect their children against such threats. Booklets with guidance on safe computing practices and ethics together as to leave the webcam facing the wall, installed in the computer area of the house where the family circle and observe the children who chat online can be powerful tools in the fight against pedophilia . The awareness and guidance are still the best pipelines in the use of resources and information available on the worldwide network of computers.