Children using mobiles to send sexually explicit images

TECHNOLOGICALLY savvy children across Ireland can and almost certainly are using their mobile phones to “sext” sexually explicit images of themselves to others without the images being traceable.

Research in Britain has shown more than a third of secondary school children have been sent messages containing sexual content.

The survey, by Beatbullying, found images featuring both boys and girls exposing themselves or involved in sexual acts were being circulated by email, text, bluetooth or added to social networking sites.