Our Think Before You Share campaign aims to help young people understand the harm of sharing explicit images and videos of themselves, and others, and encourage parents and educators to start timely conversations with children and young people. Speaking to eNCA following the arrest of a Midrand couple accused of possessing and distributing at least 10 million child sexual abuse videos and images, Ephraim Tlhako from the Film and Publication Board said there is renewed concern about the crime. It is also important to recognize the risk of youth crossing boundaries with other youth online. Youth can also face legal consequences for child sexual abuse material despite their own status as a minor.

• “Most children see porn first on Twitter – and then on Snapchat, as well as accessing the porn companies,” Dame Rachel told Today.
• But BBC News tested the site’s “new exceptionally effective” system in April.
• It may seem like the best solution is to restrict or remove access to digital media, but this can actually increase the risk of harm.
• Two-thirds of children forced into online sex abuse videos in the Philippines are exploited by their own parent or family member, it is claimed.
• Google publicly promised last year to crack down on online child pornography.
• Our elearning courses will help you manage, assess and respond to sexual harassment and abuse in primary and secondary schools.

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JOHANNESBURG – Police say they cannot specify whether there’s an increase in crimes related to child pornography in the country. Some church congregations are now regularly being warned to watch out for signs of online child sex abuse. One teenager, Jhona – not her real name – told the BBC that as a child she and a friend were sexually exploited by the girl’s mother. Reports of suspected cases of online child sex abuse across the world have soared from just over 100,000 five years ago to more than 18 million last year, figures from the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children suggest. Two-thirds of children forced into online sex abuse videos in the Philippines are exploited by their own parent or family member, it is claimed. The police usually take on the investigation of cases where the person offending has a non-caretaking role – family friend, neighbor, acquaintance, or unfamiliar adult or youth.

States move to criminalize AI-generated CSAM

In some images the location could not be determined as the image was very close up. This is, of course, particularly the case for the age group we are looking closer at in this study. 3-6-year-old children are sexually naive and would not normally be aware of the possibility of this type of sexual behaviour without someone else telling them or showing them what to do. They are easily manipulated and are therefore an easy target for predators who are looking to exploit them. “Dark web child sex offenders…cannot hide from law enforcement,” the UK’s National Crime Agency investigations lead, Nikki Holland, said.

Those in their 20s accounted for 22.6 percent of the offenders, followed by 15.0 percent in their 30s and 11.1 percent in their 40s. Investigators collected 1,517 items of evidence, including laptops, computers and mobile phones, as well as 94 boxes filled with video cassettes and DVDs. Police arrested the men in nationwide raids carried out at the end of September, seizing huge amounts of material. The men, aged 43 to 69, were suspected of being the “leading figures behind the Dark Web platform”, police in the North Rhine-Westphalia region said in a statement. To get away with such crimes, he says predators use sophisticated tools such as encryption, virtual private networks (VPNs), and cryptocurrency to cover their tracks. Painting a grim picture of the dark web Mistri explains that this secret space allows users to remain anonymous, making it easier for criminals to operate undetected.

Anonymously report suspected child sexual abuse images or videos

Lawmakers, meanwhile, are passing a flurry of legislation to ensure local prosecutors can bring charges under state laws for AI-generated “deepfakes” and other sexually explicit images of kids. Governors in more than a dozen states have signed laws this year cracking down on child porn digitally created or altered child sexual abuse imagery, according to a review by The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Laws like these that encompass images produced without depictions of real minors might run counter to the Supreme Court’s Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition ruling.

Costa Schreiner pointed out that the increase in child rapes goes hand in hand with a growing awareness of the importance of reporting them. “The world of crime is modernizing itself, much more quickly on the Internet,” she underlined. It is against federal law to create, share, access, receive, or possess any CSAM. Breaking a federal CSAM law is a serious crime, and if legally convicted, those creating, sharing, accessing or receiving CSAM could have to pay fines and or face severe legal consequences. Along with the dark web, mainstream social media platforms have become a hunting grounds for child predators.

Many youth who look for this content do not realize that it is illegal for them to look at it, even if they are a minor themselves. Where multiple children were seen in the images and videos, we saw that Category C images accounted for nearly half. In these images the children are often displaying their genitals and are with another child who may or may not also be displaying themselves. Some adults form ‘friendships’ with minors online with the intention of eventually meeting to sexually abuse them. The process of developing a relationship with a child with the intention of sexually abusing them is often called ‘grooming’, a series of warning signs in a person’s behaviors that can increase a child’s vulnerability and their risk of being sexually abused. The Organization for Pornography and Sexual Exploitation Survivors (PAPS) is a nonprofit organization that offers counseling on how to request deletion of online child porn images and videos.