A state senator who is planning a summit meeting on internet pornography says children can tap into child porn–or any other kind of pornography—with no trouble at all.

Senator John Loudon of St.Louis was a key player in writing Missouri’s cyber crimes law of 2006. It gives law enforcement more tools to catch and prosecute people who circulate pornography, especially child pornography on the internet. He asks, "If I asked you what the number one source for people to access porn, what do you think that would be?"

Loudon’s answer to that question might cause some jaws to drop. He says more than three-fourths of pornography that is downloaded today is downloaded on cell phones.

A large percentage of children have cell phones with that capability….and today’s cell phones have cameras…Loudon says it is not unusual for children to circulate photos of classmates in various stages of undress. In fact, he says nine out of ten teenagers could easily find a porn site by using their cell phone.

Loudon says it’s hard to imagine how that kind of trafficking of child porn, often produced by children, of children, for children….can be stopped.

He hopes some answers to that problem, and to the broader issues of cyber crime generally, can be found at a special cyber crime summit in December, in Jefferson City.

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