By far the worst year ever for the IWF’s abuse hotline, with a 22% spike in “category A” material, was last year.
Classification Images of sadism, penetrating sexual action, or sexual activity with an animal are depicted.
The nonprofit discovered that young children were being targeted while using phones and other gadgets in the family home for online purposes. This was the first time the organization had examined a full year’s worth of data on abuse of children aged three to six.
The report stated, “All’self-generated’ child sexual assault material is horrifying, but it is especially upsetting to see so many very young children in these pictures and films.
In a single year, the number of “self-generated” photos depicting child sexual assault increased by 27%. The offender does this by directing the victim from a distance and recording it using a webcam. It constituted the great majority of the abusive photos that the IWF examined.
