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  1. How sick predators are forcing kids into recording their own sex abuse videos while their parents sit downstairs unaware

    With cuddly toys scattered around her, schoolgirl Becky fixes her eyes on the screen in front of her as she's directed to perform a series of sickening sexual acts by vile paedophiles.

  2. 'These images are a crime scene … it's massive for us to find the child'

    Isobel has been working throughout lockdown. With her colleagues in the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) analyst room in Cambridge she has been responding to a rising number of tipoffs from the public that child abuse images are circulating online. The work is gruelling.

  3. Analysts find 15 times as much child sexual abuse material on web as a decade ago

    Analysts are finding 15 times as much child sexual abuse material on the internet as they were 10 years ago, leaving them battling a "tidal wave of criminal material".

  4. Supervise 7-to-10 year-olds online to protect against predators, warn child safety experts

    Children aged seven to 10 should be supervised while using the internet amid an “incredibly worrying” rise in sexual abuse material depicting children of those ages, internet safety experts have warned.

  5. How the Internet Watch Foundation uses tech to tackle child abuse images online

    Tech Monitor spoke to the IWF’s chief technology officer Dan Sexton about how his team is developing bespoke software to support the charity’s work.

  6. New data shows online child sexual abuse material rising

    Call for lawmakers to act quickly as new data shows child sexual abuse reports are soaring in wake of pandemic.

  7. Celebrating the people that make IWF great - Henry: I was able to gather identifying information on a victim by analysing a video that was reported to us

  8. Celebrating the people that make IWF great – Tess: Telling people that you work in policy is usually met with a slightly glazed look

  9. Celebrating the people that make IWF great - Rosa: Each day I work as an analyst I question how people are so determined to abuse, coerce and exploit children sexually

  10. Celebrating the people that make IWF great – John: I made a concerted effort within our remit to have every image and video I found of her online removed

  11. Celebrating the people that make IWF great - Joe: It’s not something people like to talk about in a social setting

  12. Celebrating the people that make IWF great - Lillian: I still see some of the same images I did 10 years ago