'Blossoming' corporal punishment websites

An elementary school girl A (9) was scolded by her mother for "not studying," and was beaten on her arms and legs with her mother's palm. The offended girl then went into her room and logged onto the Internet to type in the word "corporal punishment" on an Internet search portal. After she went into a website after the search, videos on sexual intercourse with whipping, and photos showing an adult bashing a child popped up. The girl, who got curious over this, opened a net community called "Corporal Punishment XX," which now has up to about 200 members, according to police investigation findings. [...]

The cyber crime investigation division at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said on February 11 that five elementary school students including the girl, A, and another called B, (8), who operated "Spanking XX," and two middle school students were caught operating "corporal punishment website." The police dismissed the minors with a warning while indicting other corporal punishment and porn website-operating adults without detention. [...]

The activities of minors in the sadistic corporal punishment websites are in worryingly high level. Minors operate 20 percent of the 417 such websites that have been detected by the police since last year.

source: < "Blossoming" Corporal Punishment Websites >; english.dongA.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=2007021215618; donga.com; 12 February 2007