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	Report on Child Sex Offenders Tiscali Europa September 3, 2007 http://europe.tiscali.co.uk/10ce8769115.html A European-wide problem Recent events have again drawn attention to the problems of child sexual abuse and child pornography. You may know what is being done to fight child abuse at home but what about in other countries? Similar problems, different approaches National and European authorities have intensified cooperation to fight the problem in its various guises: within the family, child prostitution, child pornography and its increased dissemination via the internet, and sex tourism by Europeans abroad. Many countries have signed up to international conventions and codes, however, national approaches do differ markedly. For instance, the age of consent ranges from twelve in some European countries (Spain, Netherlands) to 17 in Ireland while in Britain it differs for heterosexuals (16) and homosexuals (18). For sex tourism only Spain has not yet made its citizens prosecutable for child sex crimes committed abroad. And child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church has surfaced noticeably so far in Ireland, Germany and Austria.
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