Online porn is driving violence in sex assaults, Drew Harris tells Policing Authority

Online porn is driving violence in sex assaults, Drew Harris tells Policing Authority

Deputy Garda Commissioner, Operations, Shawna Coxon, and Garda Commissioner Drew Harris at the meeting of the Policing Authority at the Richmond Education and Event Centre, North Brunswick St, Dublin. Picture: Leah Farrell/Rolling News

Online violent pornography is driving much of the violence gardaí are seeing in sexual assaults on women, the Garda Commissioner has said.

Drew Harris told the Policing Authority that the widespread availability of extreme imagery involving adults was effectively “unpoliced” and “unregulated”.

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