Published: Tue 23 Jul 2024
A mother has told Sky News how her 11-year-old daughter was groomed into sending sexually explicit photographs of herself to men online and how this spiralled into physical sexual abuse.
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The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) says this is a growing problem and self-generated child abuse images - where a child is encouraged by someone online into sexualised behaviour - now makes up a large proportion of the imagery that they are removing from the internet.
It is calling on the new government to make keeping children safe online a priority.
Read the full article at Sky News.
Messaging app Telegram will deploy new tools to prevent the spread of images of child sexual abuse after teaming up with the Internet Watch Foundation.
After years of ignoring pleas to sign up to child protection schemes, the controversial messaging app Telegram has agreed to work with an internationally recognised body to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
The images that Nelson made have been linked back to real children around the world. In some cases, he then went on to encourage his clients to rape and sexually assault the youngsters.