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A senior government minister has warned against positing sexually explicit and other \u201cdegrading\u201d videos and photos on the social media, saying the practice is \u201ckilling our young leaders\u201d.<\/p>

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\u201cI am very very passionate about this because I have seen what it has done to our young women and I see how it is destroying families,\u201d Gender Affairs Minister Samantha Marshall said, as Parliament debates the Electronic Crimes Amendment Bill 2019.<\/p>\n

She told legislators that the police should move swiftly to stamp out what she described a s a growing problem here after a video showing two homeless people engaging sexual activity being circulated on social media.<\/p>

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She said the \u201cvulnerable homeless people\u201d were exploited and \u201cwe laughed at it.<\/p>

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\u201cBut the truth be told those persons need help. It is time that we stop this and I am appealing to the police do not let this that empowers you to truly carry through an investigation and to arrest those who are guilty of the offences. Do not allow this to just sit on a shelf,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Marshall said was prepared to be among members of the public demonstrating against police inaction on the matter \u201cbecause this is what we are trying to do\u201d.<\/p>

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She said there were also videos circulating on social media depicting young women in such a manner that their characters would be damaged for life.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are killing our young leaders. We are killing their future because when you do that and you circulate that nobody wants to employ them and when they go to college or to school they are laughed at.<\/p>

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\u201cSometimes the families scrap the bottom of the barrel to take their children, their daughters out of the society and to try to give them a second opportunity away. Sometimes they are lucky to do so, sometimes, some of them just cannot do it\u201d.<\/p>

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Marshall said that while young people are prone to doing mistakes, they should however not be published for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot expose them. Big grown people say we are businessmen and business women, yet we laugh and snicker, look, look \u2026it is inappropriate and when we have persons who are arrested for charges of rape, sending messages via phone, threatening, trying to convince them to accept money just to drop the charges,\u201d she said, adding these are offences.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very passionate about it, I am very passionate because I have seen what it has done to our youing women,\u201d she told legislators.<\/p>\n

The debate is continuing.<\/p>\n

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A senior government minister has warned against positing sexually explicit and other \u201cdegrading\u201d videos and photos on the social media, saying the practice is \u201ckilling our young leaders\u201d. \u201cI am very very passionate about this because I have seen what it has done to our young women and I see how it is destroying families,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nMinister upset at use of pictures of young women on internet - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/minister-upset-at-use-of-pictures-of-young-women-on-internet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minister upset at use of pictures of young women on internet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A senior government minister has warned against positing sexually explicit and other \u201cdegrading\u201d videos and photos on the social media, saying the practice is \u201ckilling our young leaders\u201d. \u201cI am very very passionate about this because I have seen what it has done to our young women and I see how it is destroying families,\u201d […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/minister-upset-at-use-of-pictures-of-young-women-on-internet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-07-24T18:54:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Samantha-Marhsall.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"899\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"505\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/minister-upset-at-use-of-pictures-of-young-women-on-internet\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/minister-upset-at-use-of-pictures-of-young-women-on-internet\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"Minister upset at use of pictures of young women on internet\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-24T18:54:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-07-24T18:54:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/minister-upset-at-use-of-pictures-of-young-women-on-internet\/\"},\"wordCount\":432,\"commentCount\":5,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/minister-upset-at-use-of-pictures-of-young-women-on-internet\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:899\/h:505\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Samantha-Marhsall.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/minister-upset-at-use-of-pictures-of-young-women-on-internet\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/minister-upset-at-use-of-pictures-of-young-women-on-internet\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/minister-upset-at-use-of-pictures-of-young-women-on-internet\/\",\"name\":\"Minister upset at use of pictures of young women on internet - 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