Campaigners are protesting to get pornography depicting rape banned after a “barbaric” teenager, Charlie Pierce, 17, who was obsessed with sexual violent images raped and bludgeoned a woman.
He committed the crime on his 17th birthday. Pierce was caught on CCTV first running towards the victim, and then away from the scene with part of a paving slab.
It is said that he had searched for videos depicting rape of “helpless” women on the internet weeks before the attack. His parents turned him in after recognising him following a public appeal by the police.
Spokesman for the Women's Equality Party, Joshua May said, “This horrific attack is a brutal reminder of the violence that women and girls still face in this country... Free porn has incentivised the proliferation of ever more violent and extreme content which, once it has hooked its audience, allows producers to protect their revenue streams. Increasingly that audience is young boys. The majority of 11 to 16-year-olds have already accessed explicit material on the internet. Unless we stop the marketing of violent porn to young boys, we can never hope to end violence against women and girls.”
