Molly Rose Russell

This is not just American children.

An ocean away, there was a girl named Molly Russell, 14 years old, London.

Her father, Ian, joined me from England and told me what the machine put in front of his daughter.

I put my head around her door at bedtime, and I said, "Good night, Molly.

Seventy percent of thirteen to seventeen-year-olds report having seen violent images, uh, on their, uh, on their devices.

There's the case of Molly Russell.

You may remember that a number of years ago now, um, a young, a young girl who took her own life after having received sixteen thousand pieces of information on Instagram, um, about self-harm and suicide ideation.

Porn.

That's after Natasha Ednan-Laperouse died after eating a Pret baguette despite carefully checking the ingredients.

It isn't officially Molly's Law, but the death of Molly Russell, who died by suicide aged 14 after watching large amounts of self-harm and suicide content on Instagram, had a huge impact on the Online Safety Act.

Her father, Ian Russell, continues to campaign for better safety, online safety rules.

These are not people who are giving up, lovely listener.