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See the latest data on what we’re doing globally to tackle child sexual abuse images and videos online.
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IWF Annual Report 2020 - Face the Facts
The scale of the problem is appalling, and our fear is without intervention it will get worse, and more and more girls will fall victim to this pernicious and manipulative form of abuse. This is a pivotal time. With more people spending more time online, predators are finding new ways to contact and manipulate children who are, in many cases, a captive audience at home with their devices. Lockdown has made this worse.
Severity of child sexual abuse according to UK categories A, B & C
- Category A: number of images showing sexual activity between adults and children including rape or sexual torture including self-penetration.
- Category B: number of images involving non-penetrative sexual activity.
- Category C: number of indecent images of children not falling within category A or B.
Child sexual abuse imagery reports 2020
*These figures include reports of non-photographic child sexual abuse imagery.
**These figures include reports “actioned” for containing child sexual abuse imagery – found on URLs and newsgroups.
***This figure is 153,369 URLs of child sexual abuse material plus 14 newsgroups showing child sexual abuse material. No UK-hosted non-photographic child sexual abuse material was found.
Breakdown by sex
Analysis of individual image hashes by age of the child and severity of the abuse
