What are the categories of child images?
Assessment Levels
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| A | Images involving penetrative sexual activity; images involving sexual activity with an animal or sadism. |
| B | Images involving non-penetrative sexual activity. |
| C | Other indecent images not falling within categories A or B. |
What is Category A child images?
Category A: ‘Images involving penetrative • sexual activity’; ‘possession of images involving sexual activity with an animal or sadism’. The Council believes that any image showing a child involved in penetrative sexual activity should be placed in the highest category.
What is photo category?
Category A images are considered to be the ‘most severe’. The repercussions for indecent image offences within this category are typically the heaviest of all related offences. Images classed in this category depict gross assault, sadism or bestiality – obscene images involving penetrative sexual activity.
What classes are indecent images?
The term ‘indecent images of children’ means a sexual image of a child (anyone under the age of 18). It includes: nude or partially clothed children. children sexually posing. images depicting children engaging in both penetrative and non-penetrative sexual activity.
What is a prohibited image of a child?
The definition of such images is equally as clear, with most people understanding that any sexualised photograph of a person under 18 years of age amounts to an indecent image. But more frequently we are seeing people being investigated for, or prosecuted over, possession of ‘prohibited images’.
What is the Oliver scale?
The Oliver scale is a condensed version of the COPINE scale. The COPINE scale is a ten point scale developed by the Combating Paedophile Information Networks in Europe (COPINE) project. The COPINE scale was originally developed for therapeutic psychological purposes, not for use in court.
What is Category B and C images?
Category A – This relates to images involving penetrative sexual activity, sexual activity with an animal or sadism. Category B – Images involving non-penetrative sexual activity. Category C – Indecent images not falling within categories A or B. Production this relates to making the original image.
What does pseudo photograph of a child mean?
A pseudo-photograph is “an image, whether made by computer-graphics or otherwise howsoever, which appears to be a photograph”. Although the term pseudo-photograph can be applied regardless of what it depicts, in law its meaning is especially relevant regarding child pornography.
Is it illegal to take a picture of a child UK?
Photos of Children and UK Law UK law only covers indecent images of children. The law states that “Taking, making, sharing and possessing indecent images and pseudo-photographs of people under 18 is illegal. They worry that perfectly innocent photos of their children could fall into the wrong hands.
What is making indecent images of a child?
The Protection of Children Act defines the production of an indecent image as “the taking or making any image at source, for instance, the original image”. It is a grave offence for which custodial sentences are highly likely.
What is pseudo image?
A pseudo-photograph is an image made by computer-graphics or otherwise which appears to be a photograph.
What is possession of indecent images?
A person is to be regarded as distributing indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs if he parts with possession of it to, or exposes or offers it for acquisition by, another person (s. 1(2) of the PCA 1978). ‘Possession’ does have a mental element that needs to be proved.