Homeschooled youngster became porn addict aged NINE

A young boy’s parents have revealed how their son became addicted to extreme online porn at the age of nine.

Joseph Deschambault, now 13 and a recovering addict, says he was playing a video game when he clicked on an X-rated advert that popped up in the corner of his computer screen. 

From that moment on, he says in the documentary Addicted to Porn, he could think of nothing other than the extreme and violent content he had seen – and his parents have revealed how they now realise it triggered an immediate change in their son’s behaviour. 

His mother Tasha – who realised what was going on after stumbling across her son’s internet search history – says home-schooled Joseph went from playing with his sisters to ‘beating on them’. His father Al says ‘he started to disrespect his sisters and my wife right away’.

The Deschambaults say their son – who spent hours searching for violent and graphic images of women while pretending to be doing school work – ‘mimicked’ what he saw on screen to the extent his sisters became scared to be alone with him.  

Joseph Deschambault was just nine years old when he first encountered porn and became addicted to watching it

‘My son was too angry all the time to interact with kids and when he did he often started fights,’ Tasha says in the documentary on the Really channel. 

‘He went from having fun playing with toys with his sister to beating her up, to her being terrified to be in the house with him – begging me not to leave the room if her brother was in the room.

‘No kidding his behaviour changed, no kidding he was beating on his sister, he was mimicking what he was seeing.’

Now a recovering porn addict at just 13-years-old, Joseph explained how he kept his porn habit secret from his parents, watching it seven days a week and even waking up in the middle of the night to go online. 

‘From the four hours [of] school time that I would have before lunch, I would say I was looking at porn for half of those hours.

‘Just going on it for the little few moments, when my mum would go to help [my sister] Gabby with her school, then I would maybe have a 30-second period to Google what I need and then I can go back to my school work like nothing ever happened.

‘My mum would be sat right next to me and I would have Google up in the corner, and I would be able to view it and I could click right off it and she would never notice.’

Joseph's mother Tasha was distraught when she discovered his secret habit and realised why his behaviour had suddenly changed

Joseph’s mother Tasha was distraught when she discovered his secret habit and realised why his behaviour had suddenly changed

Joseph’s father Al said that after he and his wife discovered their son’s secret hobby, they realised the timeline of his behaviour changed the moment he had started watching porn.

‘I can’t believe how fast something like this happens,’ he said.

‘I can’t help but feel responsible, I mean I allowed this in the house, the internet is just sitting there ready. 

‘It’s pretty easy to trace, from the minute he started the uptake you match up the days and it’s almost within a week how it lined up he started to act out, he started to disrespect his sisters and my wife right away.’ 

Addicted to Porn airs Monday 4 December on Really



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