Camera phone porn - Register to curb abuse necessary

CAMERA phone porn is now a sordid fact of life in Ireland.

As witnessed in the scandalous circulation of lewd images of a schoolgirl to hundreds of people in Cork, Limerick and Kerry, parents have every right to be alarmed at the frightening opportunities for paedophiles and others to take and transmit pornographic pictures by camera phone.

Even more scary is the realisation that children can take and send images of themselves over a system that is wide open to breaches of moral and ethical precepts.