Children encouraged remotely to produce child pornography are increasing in number

It is a terrifying realization. The Internet contains increasingly content Product from child victims of sexual abuse. The number of records created by minors manipulated by pedophiles would have exploded from 2020.

An explosion of cases from imprisonment

Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) based in the UK track and remove posted online recordings showing child sexual abuse. However, among these contents, some are produced by the victims, manipulated from the attackers.

The IWF found 8,000 additional cases of these registrations compared to last year and is a first containment the explosion of the phenomenon. The Guardian revealed that by early 2020 this content would arrive a dramatic increase of 374 % in victims aged 7 to 10 years. old children 11 to 13 years old they are most affected by these attacks. They produced 56,000 records This year.

However, there is no indication that this increase is not simply due to the progress made in surveillance.

Sexual violence in the home

The IWF report indicates that the majority of children suffer from pedophiles who act on the net register with webcam or smartphone. The organization describes the videos in which the victim is in her room and appears to read the instructions on the screen, before posting the content to the platforms. This aggression affects sometimes aged children 3 years.

“Child sexual abuse recorded through technology and the Internet it does not require the physical presence of the attackerand most of the time it occurs when the child is in his room – a so-called “safe space” in the family home. “

Susie Hargreaves, chief executive of the IWF

For Susie Hargreaves, IWF CEO, the spread of this criminal imagery is not inevitable. It has to be braked better prevention of the dangers of the Internet, especially by parentsas well as better oversight of tech companies, the government and the police.

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