Child porn hysteria targets the innocent and ignores the victims

AMID all the hype of the court cases surrounding Operation Amethyst, there has been a lot talk about the horror of the abuse of children.

But the children have been forgotten in the orgy of invective directed against those people who have supposedly exploited those unfortunate children by purchasing photographs of their abuse.

Operation Amethyst had it roots in the United States in early 1999 when a postal inspector in St Paul, Minnesota, came across a website advertising child pornography.