Learning Points: Hardcore porn can pollute our children’s minds

The recent sentencing of two teenage boys for the murder of Ana Kriégel has once again brought the issue of pornography into public discourse. The details of the case, which are finally coming into public knowledge, illuminate some very worrying trends that are pervasive in the modern adolescent world and as parents and indeed as a society we can no longer languish in complacency.

It was found that Boy A, who will never be named for legal reasons, had over 12,000 images on two phones found by Gardaí in his bedroom. The investigating Garda told the court, without the jury present, that the vast majority of those images were pornographic in nature.