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37% of child abuse images are now selfies

That’s according to the Internet Watch Foundation, which published a damning report revealing how the number of child abuse websites online has grown by 37% since 2016.

The IWF’s annual report showed that the number of confirmed child sexual abuse URLs (or web pages) numbered 78,589 in 2017.

That’s a huge leap upwards from the 57,335 pages tracked in 2016.

Worryingly, “Category A content”, which includes the rape and sexual torture of children, is up 5%. That means 33% of child abuse images are now classified at the most extreme level.

And “self-generated content” (like sexting and sexual selfies) now accounts for a third of child abuse images.

Speaking about the report, IWF boss Susie Hargreaves OBE said: “The child victims of sexual abuse online are revictimised again and again, every time their picture is shared.

“The experience they go through at such a young age is unimaginably horrific, and they frequently take this pain into adulthood with them.

“That’s why at the IWF we fight every day to make sure these images and videos are removed from the internet, so that victims are no longer forced to live with the torment of others seeing the images of their abuse online.”

The report also revealed that Europe has become a hotbed for child abuse. According to the IWF, Europe now accounts for 65% of “all child sexual abuse imagery” seen by the foundation.

The top hosting countries for child abuse URLs are the Netherlands, USA, Canada, France and Russia.

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