Postal police in Cagliari
were on Tuesday investigating the case of a video showing a
16-year-old girl engaged in heavy petting with her boyfriend
that went viral after being posted on WhatsApp.
The girl has since been the target of insults and threats.
Investigations began after the video was reported to the IFOS
psycho-social training institute, which then put out a call to
parents living in the Cagliari area to intervene to prevent it
from being circulated further.
"Parents need to help by checking their children's mobile
phones and Facebook profiles. It is infact necessary to stop the
viral spread of the video," IFOS director Luca Pisano said.
"We have a network of digital parents and one of students who
act as digital sentinels, it is thanks to these groups that the
video was reported to us," he continued.
"Responsibility for control cannot be delegated to
specialists, the police, the judiciary. Parents need to reclaim
their parental authority, acquire skills and start overseeing
the on-line profiles of their children," Pisano said.
"A young boy or girl cannot possibly have over 2,000 contacts
and belong to 12 WhatsApp groups. The risk that photos or videos
of this nature are shared is very high," he concluded.
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