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    lynne-chloe
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    I took my 5 year old grandson to the public library today. They have a table set up in the children’s section with tablets for the children to play electronic games on. There is one laptop computer on this desk connected to the internet. You have to be 14 years old to use it and give the staff at the main desk your library card number. There was an older woman with a 5 or 6 yr. old boy, 8 or 9 yr. old girl sitting at the table on one side using the tablets and an 11 or 12 yr. old girl on the same side of the table where the internet connected computer was. Then a girl who had to be 14 or a little older was using the internet on the computer. As I walked by with my grandson, the oldest girl looked up at me a little startled. I looked at the computer screen and saw a man with no shirt on and a woman sitting in front of him about at his waist. I thought it must be a soap opera for an adult male to have his shirt off and for a public library computer to allow access to a half dressed man. The young girl using the computer had on head phones since it was a library. When she saw me glance at the screen, she quickly changed the internet page. My gut registered that something was not right. My grandson now had his back to the computer table and was starting to pick out some books to read. So I turned around to look at what the girl had on the computer screen now. Because she had the head phones on, the screen had the conversation typed at the bottom of the screen. She had gone back to the former scene and the half dressed man was still standing in front of the woman but now I could see the printed conversation at the bottom of the screen. He was saying, “give me some head”. I got sick and sad and upset all at the same time. The girl saw that I witnessed what she was watching. I immediately walked around to the adult woman on the other side of the table and asked her if she was related to the girl using the computer. She said she was her aunt. I told her what I witnessed her niece watching. She walked around and questioned the niece who was now deleting the history and off the porno page. I then went to the library staff desk and told a male librarian what had happened. I could not believe there were no filters or security features on a computer used by children in a public library. He said they were just in the process of transitioning to new software and he would report what I saw happen. The woman and the children left the library in a little while, but it really bothered me that the library staff did not unplug the computer and put a sign on it saying “out of order” so no other child could access the porno sites. I went back to the desk and asked to see the head of the library. They said she was in a meeting and gave me comment card to fill out. I couldn’t stay any longer to talk to the head of the library since my grandson was getting antsy and hungry. My son-in-law is going to call the library tomorrow to talk to them about it since I am visiting from out of town and have to leave early in the morning to return home. I had many thoughts about this situation. One– was the young girl watching the porn being sexually abused at home? Had she been introduced to porn by someone? Two–why didn’t the library staff immediately cut off access to that compromised computer? Three–how awful that children could walk by and see pornography on the screen. Four–we have to be vigilant with our children at all times now. It is so sad. Children viewing pornography at a young age is the history of so many of our SAH’s. This happened at the North Portland (Oregon) library on Killingsworth Street in the children’s section. I have no words.

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