“It is important that we not only look at the online element of these crimes but the impact that it also has on communities"
Each day, a team of analysts faces a seemingly endless mountain of horrors. The team of 21, who work at the Internet Watch Foundation’s office in Cambridgeshire, spend hours trawling through images and videos containing child sexual abuse.
Jordan King, reporter for Metro, looks at IWF transcripts showing actual conversations between online groomers and child victims
The US now hosts more child sexual abuse material online than any other country
CSAM hosting around the world rose 64 percent last year, and a surge in the United States put it second behind the Netherlands, a new report found.
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