“A child would think, ‘I’m going to get into trouble’, so they better put their name in,” Dr Worsley said. Preparing your children to be internet savvy is a way of protecting them from being groomed.ĭr Worsley says when she clicked on this site, she was asked to give her name and then told off when she didn’t do as instructed. “You have to explain that it’s not OK and that they are not allowed to touch other people’s bodies, unless they have permission.” “You have to go through an open conversation about what might happen if someone clicks on these things,” she said. She said parents need to express the notion of dominance and people’s rights to their own body. If children are found to have stumbled across this type of site, Dr Worsley said parents need to be ready to have an explicit sex talk with their child and not just tell their child off for accessing the site. “They don’t always understand what the right emotion is … With the heightened use of internet gaming, we are seeing a lot of children coming out with Asperger’s behaviour they are not able to read emotions and what people’s faces are telling them,” Dr Worsley said. She said games showing pleasure and pain as if it is OK, are confusing for a developing child, who is learning to read people’s emotions. She said pornography takes away children’s innocence and normalises behaviour that is not normal for children.ĭr Worsley said the games on this site advocate rape and male dominance, giving children a sense that that conduct is OK. Senior clinical psychologist and director of The Resilience Centre, Lyn Worsley, said parents had good reason to be concerned about gaming sites like this one. It’s deceptive, dangerous and malicious … the kids could click on a link that takes them to another world that is entirely inappropriate for them,” said Mrs McCarthy. “The link is less obvious than I thought, but the porn is only one click away, which is frightening. She normally oversees what her boys are playing online, but said she could easily be fooled to think the site was OK for her boys to use. Mother of two pre-teen boys, Charlotte McCarthy, says her sons are avid gamers. “There is evidence that this website was set up originally with the intent of combining children’s games and adult sex games within the one site,” said Mr Van Leeuwen. Web developer Daniel Van Leeuwen, from Lion Websites in Sydney, searched the history of the website, finding it has been operating since 2004. Administrators blocked the forum from accepting new users and comments in mid-2015, however the posts are still readily available. The same thread creator has posted similar child-sex related forum posts. Posts such as “Like Young Boys”, state the writer has swapped many pictures with young boys online. Headings titled “Homework Help” appear innocent enough, but closer inspection reveals sinister undertones throughout the forum. Take a stroll through the forum section, linked from the main page and it quickly becomes apparent this forum has also been used for grooming children. Links and adverts for real-life pornographic content pop-up within this area. These sex games feature graphic sexual scenarios, all accessible for children to play. Under the ‘want more’ tab is a hidden link for online sex games.