PRIME MINISTER DAVID CAMERON ANNOUNCES NEW CRIME AGENCY TO STOP PAEDOPHILES

The hunt for paedophiles is to be taken as seriously as TERRORISM

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Police currently have to prove suspects have received an illegal image

But new law will allow police to pursue those who 'fish' for victims online 

Punishment will apply irrespective of outcome of paedophile's behaviour 

The Serious Crime Bill will make offence punishable by two years in jail 

Revenge porn will also become a specific offence, PM will announce today 

Britain’s spy agencies are to try to break up the so-called ‘dark web’ used by paedophiles to share sick child abuse images online.

GCHQ will also form a new specialist unit with the National Crime Agency to tackle the serial offenders who hide from justice by using encrypted internet networks

And David Cameron will today announced a new criminal offence of sexual communication with a child is to be created, closing a staggering loophole in the law. 

Paedophiles who currently solicit explicit pictures of children routinely escape punishment if it can’t be proved they have received an illegal image.

But the new law will allow police and prosecutors to pursue those who send text messages or ‘fish’ for victims online, irrespective of the outcome of their behaviour, David Cameron told the Daily Mail. 

The Prime Minister will use a summit with internet firms and experts in Downing Street to announce that a Serious Crime Bill currently going through Parliament will introduce a broad new offence, punishable by two years in jail.

It will allow police and prosecutors to pursue those who ‘fish’ for child victims on social networks and chat rooms but cannot usually be punished unless they can be shown to have received an illegal image.

Other new measures include new technology being used to add a ‘digital fingerprint’ to child abuse images and videos identified by the authorities that will prevent them being copied and shared.

Revenge porn - the distribution of a private sexual image of someone without their consent and with the intention of causing them distress – will become a specific offence.

It will also become illegal to possess any item that contains advice or guidance about abusing children sexually.

‘We have seen an increasing and alarming phenomenon of adults grooming children online, encouraging them to send images of themselves over the internet or on mobile phones,’ Mr Cameron said.

‘There can be no grey areas here. If you ask a child to take their clothes off and send a picture, you are as guilty as if you did that in person.

‘So we are changing the law. Just as it is illegal to produce and possess images of child abuse, now we are making it illegal to solicit these images too.

‘This law will make it clear – this is a crime, and you will be prosecuted for it.’