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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
Since the game in question is specifically for those over the age of eighteen years old and has the personal boundaries function to be explicitly disabled what else would you have them do ?
Too many parents buy their children adult/mature games such as CoD & GTA V which in the U.K. both carry an 18 rating as they think it’s ’just a game’
Software developers and games companies can put in age verification all they want but if a parent is going to buy them the game then they’re more than likely going to give them a eg a credit card to verify their ID which btw is completely useless as an identity factor on its own.
The simple fact is this, protection of children starts with, and is the primary responsibility of the parent(s) be that not purchasing the game for them, ensuring internet access is controlled and supervised etc.
Just for S&G i rang my local police force this morning told them that I had been playing CoD had been teabagged and considering the news I wanted to report a sexual assault. After the laughter stopped they told me that there was no offence…….
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Children have always wanted to participate in adult activities before they are legally entitled to eg drinking under age.
A lot of paedophiles who target children on websites intended for over 18's use the defence that it is an over 18 site, this never washes with the courts as it's accepted that children nevertheless do join such sites and if they make it clear that they are a child then the fact that it's a site intended for over 18's is regarded as not relevant.
This would be the case even if any parent was irresponsible enough to buy them a game intended for over 18's.
In a real world situation a 15 yo girl may manage to get into a nightclub. If she discloses that she's only 15 to a man who she meets and has sex with, the fact that they met in an environment for over 18's would not be a defence.
If she never mentioned her age or lied and said she was older, then it would.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
A) no we don’t know it’s a "little girl", as no links have been provided.
B) If it was a "little girl" (define, please), what was a young child doing online in a VR environment without adult supervision?
Update - just seen pip’s post - it was an adult researcher….
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I was verbally told about this by a colleague, so no link was available at the time. Now that it's been picked up by the media I am able to provide this:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...tar-raped.html
Sadly, the incident referred to by Pip appears to refer to a historical case and it was a real little girl that was targetted
Her age had not been disclosed, only that she was under 16.
The definition of rape requires physical penetration to take place, so I imagine that other laws will be used against the perpetrators until if/,when the law is updated to take into account modern technology.