Top MP says young children shouldn’t be allowed smartphones and blames technology for rise of sex attacks

AGE restrictions should be slapped on tablets and smartphones to stamp out a shocking rise in child sex attacks on kids as young as SIX.

Ex-Tory minister Maria Miller demanded action today and claimed technology risked being as damaging to kids as smoking.

In a moving Commons address she added that online giants should face a levy to help tackle extreme porn “fuelling” a prolific increase in child-on-child sexual harassment in classrooms.

In a passionate speech in the Commons she slammed the Government and schools for failing in a duty of care to protect children across the country.

She said she had spoken to one mum whose 6 year-old was raped by a schoolmate.

Another said his 12-year-old daughter had friends who sexted boys – and thought nothing of talking about anal sex and wearing dog collars.

She told MPs: “We should be considering age restrictions on tablets and smartphones. It wasn’t long ago that we thought smoking didn’t do us harm – now we know better.”

She added: “The second parent I spoke said his daughter was raped at school, and girls were being encouraged to have anal sex by their classmates.

“They have no idea they are experiencing sexual abuse if their first frame of reference is extreme porn.

“We’ve given our children access to the world through that technology but without the rules and regulations they see in every other aspect of their daily life,” she said.

“We have allowed exponential growth without asking any questions at all.

“We shouldn’t be surprised that people who look for a fact on Google think facts on Google can be true.

“Half of three-year-olds and 75 per cent of 11-year-olds use a tablet – we could pick on any number of areas of criminal activity that come out of this high level of connectivity and high level of peer-on-peer abuse.”