Sexual abuse of children is a flagrant transgression on human, social, and family values, such values which represent conscience and proper human existence, culprits in such crimes aim to make material gain using children as commodity, to be bought and sold, and subject to supply and demand, and their prices increases and decrease accordingly, this crime Is an aggression towards public interest, for what in contains of damage to fundamental tenets of a sound society, it affects human dignity for the most fragile in society.
The phenomenon of sexual abuse of children is a closed and concerning one, therefore the importance of research on it lies in the fact that it is a serious attempt to highlight a topic that have remained far from legal research, because of difficulty and secrecy In it treatment, research aims to reach and real understanding of the dimensions of this phenomenon helping to address it as a legal and social problem, in addition to lifting barriers in front of official, social, educational, and press institutions to help raise public awareness in society and among children to protect and immunize them from this crime.
The object of this research is to direct the criminal legislator in the necessity to provide criminal protection of childhood rights in line with constitutional and international standards, in addition to redirecting social, educational, cultural, public, and psychological policy to combating the phenomenon of sexual abuse of children, research also aims to measure effectiveness of criminal policy in reducing this phenomenon in comparison to social policy, research aims to create a framework for sexual abuse of children through modern information technology, whether through assessing appropriateness and applicability of active criminal texts, or regarding criminal liability of providers of facilitating (intermediate) services when crimes are committed through modern information technology.