The child’s devastated father spoke exclusively to WJZ and said his daughter had to transfer to another school. “I don’t think this little boy should have got what he got, but he got it, and now what are we going to do about it?” “I don’t think this little girl should have did what she did, but she did it,” said a woman on YouTube. READ MORE: State Of Emergency: Maryland National Guard Prepares To Open New Testing Sites As Coronavirus Cases SkyrocketĪlthough it’s considered child pornography, millions of people have watched the video around the world. “You guys need to cut it out and leave her alone. “It’s just that hers is caught in public, in school, which is like a major, major, major, major problem for me,” said a man on YouTube. I just wouldn’t,” said one woman on YouTube. “To me the whole thing is so totally repulsive, and I wouldn’t do that for anyone. Police say rumors of arrests after an incident involving Frederick Douglass High students– which WJZ was first to report– where a girl says she was recorded without her knowledge, are false, although they are still investigating.Īnd people just can’t stop talking about that viral video posted on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Video of students as young as 14, having sex on school grounds in Baltimore, has spread online. READ MORE: Baltimore County Police Searching For Missing 12-Year-Old Boy Mike Hellgren has new insight into the controversy. The incidents are provoking strong opinions online. WJZ first broke news of both sex scandals, and there are two police investigations underway. Videos of Baltimore students having sex are spreading worldwide. While more women are reporting violence to the police, activists say, many more still go unreported.BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Indecent exposure. In the past two months, the police have registered 479 reports of rape and attempted rape, more than the total number of cases filed in 20, according to official figures. Panta’s killing caused an increase in reports of sexual assault.
The real problem is the lack of justice for women who do take complaints of domestic and sexual violence to the police, Ansari told AFP. Women’s rights activist Mohna Ansari of the National Human Rights Commission said that the authorities were “closing their eyes to the reality”. Lawyer and internet freedom activist Babu Ram Aryal told AFP the “ridiculous” ban exposes the government’s “lack of understanding of how the internet works”. Meanwhile, the crackdown has been slammed by campaigners. It’s not a very effective way of doing things,” Bohara told AFP news agency. “There are many back-end ways to reach these sites. Only 60 percent of Nepal’s population has access to the internet, according to the telecom authority’s numbers, raising further questions about the efficacy of banning online porn to curb sexual violence.īinaya Bohara, CEO of internet service provider Vianet, warned that the government’s vague directive would be difficult to follow. The list of websites that the telecoms authority has told providers to block has not been made public – but as explicit sites were still easily available on Thursday it was not clear if the ban was being enforced.
Nepali activists have called on the government to hold rapists responsible for their actions ‘Closing their eyes to the reality’ “Easy access to porn and vulgar content through the internet has affected our social values and social harmony and it has encouraged sexual violence,” the government said in a statement. In response to the mounting criticism, a state crackdown on “pornography and vulgar content” was announced last Friday. The government stoked further ire by describing the protests as a conspiracy against the ruling party.
Panta’s killing sparked protest rallies across the country in August – leaving one dead and dozens injured – after the state was accused of not taking adequate action in rape cases and a video emerged of police officers destroying evidence. The move, which the government says is in order to curb sexual violence, follows a national outpouring of anger this summer in response to the brutal rape and murder of 13-year-old Nirmala Panta in July. Nepal said on Thursday it had ordered more than 24,000 pornography websites to be blocked under a crackdown that activists have criticised as “ridiculous” and ineffective.