Child porn task force on verge of collapse

A GROUP set up to tackle child pornography on the internet is on the verge of collapse because the Government is not providing enough funding, a conference heard yesterday.

“We have no government funding, we have no investment or resources and if it wasn’t for a few very concerned volunteers on the ground there would be no facilities either,” the director of Combating Paedophile Information Networks in Europe (COPINE), said yesterday.

Max Taylor said their information on child pornography was very worrying: “Ireland is no different to any other country in the world and we must accept that child pornography is now a serious problem and growing all the time.”