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Last year, three Cape men, Corne van Rooyen, 40, Garth van West, 53, and Shannon Manuel, 32, were busted on similar charges following a joint operation by SAPS and the US Department of Homeland Security.
Now Women and Men Against Child Abuse (WMACA) have launched a campaign called “Stop Calling it Child Pornography”.
WMACA advocacy manager, Luke Lamprecht, says: “We must stop calling this ‘child pornography’.
“That term minimises the horror. This is not about children being sexualised; it is about them being brutalised.
“WMACA Advocacy underscores the urgent need to challenge the terminology used in public discourse, particularly the use of ‘child pornography’, which trivialises the gravity of these crimes.
“Pornography implies consent; children cannot consent to such sexualised acts. Describing these non-consensual sexualised images as ‘pornography’ normalises…