Our children are in peril on the internet and nobody’s policing it

Parents are to blame. Children are to blame. Government, as usual, is to blame. The perpetrators, of course, are to blame, writes Fergus Finlay. 

Last week, a man called Matthew Horan was convicted of a variety of sex crimes, involving the use of technology, to prey on children. I’m not going to go into the stomach-turning details of what he did, but he destroyed lives.

The case has provoked uproar, and endless debates on radio, television, and elsewhere, about how can we keep our children safe. The most popular answers appear to be that it’s down to parents and to children.