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Factbook on Global Sexual
Exploitation
New Zealand
Pornography
Official Response
and Action
In August 1998 the Law Society commissioned Denise Ritchie, an Auckland solicitor and
chairwoman of the lobby group End Child Pornography New Zealand, to prepare a code of
practice for Internet access companies to make them "good citizens" when it
comes to pornography. (‘Net pornography probe", New Zealand News, 9
August 1998)
Importing pornography
electronically will become an offence if an amendment is added to the Customs and Excise
Act 1996 in New Zealand. The government is already successfully discouraging people from
setting up domestic Internet pornography sites and distributes information to schools,
libraries, and Internet service providers regarding on-line safety. ("Govt urged to
outlaw porn business through internet," Waikato Times, 21 September 1998)
Case
Paul Edward George Benning, 24, a Dunedin student, became the first person in New
Zealand to be convicted of transmitting pornography via the Internet. He operated under
the pseudonym Mr Hello on an inter-relay chat channel called "100 per cent Pre-teen
Sex Pics". ("Conviction for Internet porn," Waikato Times, 6 March
1998)
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Donna M. Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic, Nadine Z. Mendelsohn and Vanessa Chirgwin
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