More than 300 million children victims of online sexual abuse every year
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First global study of its kind exposes ‘staggering scale’ of crime, with one in nine men in the US admitting to the offence.
By Haroon Siddique
More than 300 million children across the globe are victims of online sexual exploitation and abuse each year, research suggests.
In what is believed to be the first global estimate of the scale of the crisis, researchers at the University of Edinburgh found that 12.6% of the world’s children have been victims of nonconsensual talking, sharing and exp...
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