A shocking new United Nations cybercrime treaty quietly carves out legal protection for AI-generated child sexual abuse material, virtual child pornography, and even child-to-adult sexting — marking one of the most disturbing international policy shifts in decades. While promoted as a tool to fight cybercrime, Article 14.2 explicitly allows signatory nations to decriminalize sexualized visual, written, or audio depictions of children so long as the images are not of an “existing person.” In other words, AI-generated child pornography and virtual minors can now be legally sexualized under the treaty’s framework. Further clauses permit child sexting under all circumstances — even between minors and adults, so long as the child is above a nation’s age of consent — effectively normalizing behaviors long recognized as grooming. Astonishingly, defenders claim this will “satisfy” pedophiles and reduce real-world abuse, despite decades of evidence showing that pornography fuels escalation, exploitation, and trafficking.

This treaty isn’t simply bad policy — it is the systematized moral collapse Scripture warns will characterize the last days. Isaiah condemned cultures that “call evil good,” and Jesus described a world so depraved that offending “little ones” would bring severe judgment. Yet global powers — including the EU, China, and Russia — have signed onto a framework that legitimizes digital child exploitation and paves the way for AI-driven sexualization of minors. This is more than bureaucratic negligence; it is a prophetic indicator of a world racing toward lawlessness and the dehumanizing machinery of the coming Beast system. When international law begins protecting predators rather than children, we are witnessing a civilization crossing a line God Himself will not overlook.

SOURCE: The Federalist