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These children might be babies; they might be teenagers. They may have been raped; they may have been groomed for months; their abuse may even have been 'ordered' online. The depravity of the criminals who make and view these tragic images is beyond belief.
Each child is a real victim. They may be different ages, come from different countries, have different skin colours, or languages, but their suffering is the same.
Every time the record of abuse is shared online, every time someone views the trauma, these children are abused again. The abuse is perpetual. To a child or young person, it must feel never-ending.
That’s why we do what we do. We stop, remove and prevent child sexual abuse online.
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Find out moreIt was terrible, but somehow I learned to cope with the physical side of the sexual abuse. But the fact that I knew the images were out there, that anyone could see what had happened to me, that did things to my head. It affected how I felt about myself, my lack of self-respect, the shame and the humiliation I felt was terrible. But worst of all was that gnawing feeling in the pit of my stomach, knowing that anyone I met could have seen those images of me.
As part of our job we help children like Zara, by removing the online record of their abuse. In 2020 alone, we destroyed over 153,000 webpages each containing hundreds, even thousands of abusive images of children.
Nearly one third of the images were of children under ten. Sadly, the younger the child, the more severe the abuse appeared to be.
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two of our Hotline analysts to have counselling sessions, part of our duty of care to help ensure they cope with the horror of what they witness in the nature of their work.
us to issue several ‘Takedown Notices’ to companies hosting child sexual abuse imagery preventing repeat victimisation every time images of their abuse are viewed or shared.
us to ‘hash’ images of child sexual abuse, preventing them from being shared or uploaded to the internet.
*Names have been changed to protect the victim's identity.