Over 300 Million Children A Year Face Sexual Abuse Online: Study
- More than 300 million children globally experience online sexual abuse and exploitation annually, according to new research from the University of Edinburgh. One in eight children, or 12.6%, are affected by non-consensual sharing of sexual content.
- A total of about 302 million young people are impacted by online sexual abuse, with 12.5% facing solicitation, including requests for sexual acts.
- Offenders engage in 'sextortion,' demanding money from victims to prevent the sharing of private images.
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Every eighth child is sexually exploited online
One in eight children worldwide is a victim of online sexual abuse. In 2023, around 302 million children and adolescents were sexually exploited online, according to a study published on Monday by the Childlight Global Child Safety Institute at the University of Edinburgh. This includes taking and sharing photos and videos with sexual content, online extortion with sexually explicit footage, and AI for fake photos and videos. According to the in…
Over 300 million children a year face sexual abuse online: study
LONDON: More than 300 million children a year are victims of online sexual exploitation and abuse, according to the first global estimate of the scale of the problem published on Monday. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh found that one in eight of the world’s children have been victims of non-consensual taking, sharing and exposure to sexual images and video in the past 12 months. That amounts to about 302 million young people, said t…
One in eight minors in the world exposed to pornography or sexually exploited on the Internet, according to a study
In the last twelve months, 12.5% of people under 18 in the world have been confronted on the web with unwanted photos, videos or sexual interactions — such as blackmail in intimate photos — according to a study by the Childlight Institute published on Monday, May 27. This figure climbs to 20% in Western Europe.
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