Online child sexual abuse imagery made by children up 77% in a year

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Online child sexual abuse imagery made by children 'up 77% in a year'

The number of child sexual abuse images and videos created by children has soared by more than three-quarters in a year, figures show.

Date - 12th January 2021
By - Chloe Livadeas

The charity Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) analysed 299,600 reports of potentially illegal material in 2020, up 15 per cent from the previous year. Of these, 68,000 reports included child abuse content that was “self-generated” (44 per...

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