ADVOCACY group, Women and Men Against Child Abuse (WMACA), has called on South Africans to engage in a critical discourse over child pornography.
This comes after the arrest of Darren Wilken, 35, who is due for his second court appearance in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
Wilken was arrested on Friday in Midrand following a raid that uncovered electronic devices containing child sexual abuse material, large sums of cash, and drugs, exposing his connection to a transnational sex crime syndicate.
As a result, WMACA advocacy manager, Luke Lamprecht, launched a campaign called “Stop Calling it Child Pornography”.
“Describing these non-consensual sexualised images as ‘pornography’ normalises the eroticisation of children and misrepresents the reality of sexual abuse, rape, and exploitation,“ he said.
According to WMACA, the arrest of Wilken is…