Adrien Taquet, Secretary of State for Children, will take legal action for exposure of minors to pornography and pedocrime on Omegle, an American video messaging platform. The Secretary of State for Children will report to the courts facts of exposure of minors to pornography and pedocrime on Omegle, an American messaging platform very popular with college students, we learned on Wednesday at his office. Adrien Taquet will use in the coming days article 40 of the code of criminal procedure which imposes the obligation, “for any constituted authority”, to report to the public prosecutor a crime or offense of which he is aware, indicated his entourage. at AFP. The site Kool Mag, an online parenting magazine for fathers, published an investigation denouncing the presence of mature exhibitionists on this platform very frequented by young people. This American anonymous instant video messaging website allows strangers to chat via camera. The founder of Kool Mag, Baptiste des Monstiers, says he surfed the site on a Wednesday afternoon and met dozens of children and teenagers aged 9 to 15, looking for new friends. He also saw there, likely to come into contact with these children, “dozens of men who masturbate, who show off, some disguised as women wearing women’s underwear”. Read also: Pornography, pedophilia … what is “Omegle”, the video messaging website popular with young people and which worries parents? Accessible on computer and telephone, the site just asks the user to confirm that he is over 13 years old, without verifying it. Launched in 2009, Omegle has attracted an increasing number of minors since confinement and has one million visitors in France per month, according to Kool Mag. “Many youtubers offer their fans to talk to them directly on the Omegle site. Basically: ‘I connect, come and with a little luck, we will meet’. A kind of big wheel of fortune on which we can meet dozens of cranks and exhibitionists who hang out on the site”, accuses Baptiste des Monstiers. In the “Community Guidelines” posted on its English-language site, Omegle states that “nudity, pornography, and sexually explicit behavior and content are prohibited” in the moderated sections of its services. For Thomas Rohmer, founder of the Observatory of Parenthood and Digital Education (Open), this situation illustrates “the need for regulation of social networks” and in particular the need to verify the age limit of 13 years at the instead of being satisfied with a simple declaration. “YouTubers shouldn’t meet young fans on this site, it’s like meeting in a sex shop or a porn site,” he told AFP. To read also: Omegle: child pornography, sexual harassment … four tips to protect your children from dangerous sites , confirms to AFP Samuel Comblez, director of operations of 3018, the national number managed by the association e-Enfance to fight against cyber-harassment. “This site has been reported to us for several months by young people, shocked, who do not dare to speak to their parents because they have gone to a site prohibited for children under 13. They experience great loneliness”, he explains. . “We have been alerted to contacts made by potential harassers who encourage minors to follow them on other sites where they suffer cyberbullying, attempted hacking and blackmail,” he adds.