[Retroman]

Sometimes it isn't the older person who initiates things, or the parents fault for this happening...

Sometimes underage girls purposefully seek older men/boys because of the pure fact they think it's "cool"
Even some mature youngsters tend to go for older people, because they claim everyone in their class/age group are far too immature to be with.

Also, minors can often be found lying about their age in order to talk to, chat up and potentially meet older men, and also end up having sexual intercourse with them.

The man is totally unaware and trusts them when they say they're over the legal age.

So who is in the wrong there?
The so called paedophile who was lied to and had relations with a girl he believed to be legal? Afterall, it's pretty odd behaviour to ask people to display a birth certificate to check if they're lying? so what else is the man supposed to do if he looks at her and thinks she passes for 16+ ?

Im sure there are cases of minors luring the man into sex, the man finding out she's underage and ceasing contact with her, then her becoming mad and accusing him of rape/taking advantage. So sometimes the underage people are far from victims and their immaturity leads to vindictive actions.

However, no matter who is doing the lying, I do think people under 13 years of age should be banned completely from webcam...
As hormones often lead to young girls having "online boyfriends" whether they tell their parents "oh I promise i'll only go on webcam for my friends" or not.

The only exception I would make is if I 100% trusted my child with webcam, and did check up on them or put the PC in the living room to assure nothing bad is going on. Kids get too much at an early age these days anyway, it's far better to trust them alone with a PC in their bedroom when they're fifteen minimum/ preferably sixteen.

In short, kids don't know any better and any responsible parent should put a stop to such things happening. The parents have the power to not buy a webcam at all, or as I said, place the PC in the living room so they can type privately without being watched constantly, but can clearly be seen if they're on webcam or not. Twelve year olds moaning about freedom/privacy is ridiculous...especially in todays world. Im not saying they're not entitled to freedom/privacy, but not when it comes to webcams.

Hate to say this, but any girl who goes on webcam for boys/men she's not already friends with [and in some cases, boys/men she is friends with.] are often exposed to being "gawped" at or "perved" on [for lack of better words.] at least to some extent.

Even people you consider friends, could be getting upto "things" on the other end of the webcam whilst watching you...
You really can't say you know somebodies capabilities/minds inside out, so it really could be anyone.

Id also like to add, I have had random 13yr olds add my MSN address from my myspace profile and go on webcam for me...
As soon as I take one look at them I don't even bother telling them to go away, they're instantly put on block. I also get quite a few minors [usually 15.] adding me and commenting on my pics and saying things I really don't want to hear from someone of such an age. So I know full well the situation of young girls initiating contact with older boys/men, and it's also ridiculous how sexually orientated some of them are when it comes to conversation.

Some of them really are just asking to be taken advantage of by older men.
It's just plain stupidity.