NOT FOR YOUNG EYES
HE’D meant to be more careful with his phone. He knew his five-year-old daughter had started using it to play games when she found it lying around. But some evenings he was so tired when he got home from work that he simply plonked it down on his nightstand and forgot about it.
He doesn’t know exactly when it happened, or how many times, but what his child found while scrolling on her father’s device has probably scarred her mind forever.
She came across porn videos. And she was so intrigued by it, she started searching for pornography on her own device, after figuring out keywords to find it.
By the time her parents discovered what was happening and took her to see clinical psychologist Marita Rademeyer, the girl was masturbating to the graphic videos she’d so easily found online.
This is just one of a number of such cases Rademeyer has recently dealt with at her practice in
