\u201cIt didn\u2019t matter that those images \u2018weren\u2019t me\u2019, or that the fetish sites were \u2018technically\u2019 legal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a painful, violating experience; a living nightmare I hoped no other child would have to go through.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mara \u2013 who also appeared in 1993\u2019s Mrs Doubtfire and 1994\u2019s Miracle on 34th Street \u2013 clarified that she \u201calways felt safe\u201d on film sets.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cFrom ages 5 to 13, I was a child actor.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd while as of late we\u2019ve heard many horror stories about the abusive things that happened to child actors behind the scenes, I always felt safe while filming.\u201d<\/p>\n
She pointed out the terrifying reality that other children\u2019s images could be used to create CSAM, even if they aren\u2019t a celebrity.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cIt is now infinitely easier for any child whose face has been posted on the internet to be sexually exploited. Millions of children could be forced to live my same nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n
She called on tech companies and social media platforms to \u201cbe held accountable\u201d, and urged people to demand \u201clegislation and technological safeguards\u201d.<\/p>\n
She continued: \u201cWe also need to examine our own actions: nobody wants to think that if they share photos of their child, those images could end up in CSAM.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it is a risk, one that parents need to protect their young children from, and warn their older children about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt didn\u2019t matter that those images \u2018weren\u2019t me\u2019, or that the fetish sites were \u2018technically\u2019 legal. \u201cIt was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1903,74,365,2511,156,2740,17518,5606,4188,105121,6287,20695,111,139,79327,69,1118,1517,7680,2737,13797,6038],"class_list":["post-243105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-abuse","tag-after","tag-ai","tag-child","tag-entertainment","tag-former","tag-image","tag-images","tag-living","tag-mara","tag-material","tag-matilda","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nightmare","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-reveals","tag-sex","tag-star","tag-used","tag-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}