Advocacy group Women and Men Against Child Abuse responds to a surge in child pornography arrests in South Africa, calling for a critical discourse on the terminology used and the urgent need for better resources to combat child exploitation.
Women and Men Against Child Abuse has vowed to continue picketing outside the Randburg Magistrate’s Court with every appearance of Darren Wilken, who was last Friday arrested after he was found with more than 10 million videos and images of child porn at his Midrand home. File Picture: Etienne Creux / Independent NewspapersAdvocacy group, Women and Men Against Child Abuse , has called on South Africa ns to engage in a critical discourse over child pornography.
As a result, WMACA advocacy manager, Luke Lamprecht, launched a campaign called “Stop Calling it Child Pornography”. “Describing these non-consensual sexualised images as ‘pornography’ normalises the eroticisation of children and misrepresents the reality of sexual abuse, rape, and exploitation,“ he said.
“WMACA knows how challenging and complicated cases like Wilken’s can get. Which raises concern regarding SAPS’s resources and ability to identify and help these child victims? Will they ever receive the justice and psychological support they need?” she said. Jordan further revealed that Wilken’s case has exposed a global marketplace of child exploitation. Each file seized represents a child who has suffered, continues to suffer, or has been lost to this system of abuse. These children are not just statistics — they are human beings whose lives have been irreversibly harmed.This operation resulted in the arrest of William Beale, the first South African suspect implicated in a global child abuse ring.
“The Wilken case follows a disturbingly similar pattern, raising serious concerns about the continued operations of global sex crime syndicates exploiting children for profit.
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