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The UK Ministry of Justice has unveiled proposals�to ban the�possession of non-photographic visual depictions of under-aged children engaged in sexual activity. This is�partly in response to�suggestions that paedophiles could be circumventing the law by using computer generated images to manipulate real photographs or videos of abuse into drawings or cartoons.

'This is not about criminalising art or pornographic cartoons more generally, but about targeting obscene, and often very realistic, images of child sexual abuse which have no place in our society', said the parliamentary under-secretary of state for justice.

It�is not yet a criminal offence in the United Kingdom�to possess drawings and computer generated images of child abuse.�The proposals announced�yesterday will create a new criminal offence to possess drawings and computer-generated images of underaged children in sexual activity.

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29 May 2008