‘Lad points’ of web abuse

BOYS share vile online material on rape and the Holocaust to score “lad points”, it was claimed.

The 36% of 11 to 18-yearold pupils sending offensive material was twice the rate among girls, Digital Awareness UK found.

Some 70% of both sexes had seen such images but it happened daily for 40% of boys, and was becoming “normalised”, said DAUK chief Emma Robertson.

She told a heads’ conference boys wanted “to get lad points, or entertain”.