New study from Childlight - Global Child Safety Institute shows 300 MILLION children globally have experienced online child sexual abuse IN THE LAST YEAR.

The data is clear - this is a public safety emergency.

THIS is why social media platforms must be regulated to protect children.
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Over 300 million children experience online sexual exploitation and abuse. Up to 1 in 9 men admit sexually offending online against children.

The latest Childlight - Global Child Safety Institute shows it’s time to treat this like a global public health emergency #childrencantwait

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937, 500 Australian men admit to engaging in online child sexual abuse. #CSAM Going to be more than that who don’t admit to it.
Lots of us must know some, or live with one.

🌎Children globally live in the darkness of sexual exploitation & abuse but with a lack of data it’s difficult to assess the scale
🔦Today we shine a light. Please read the 1st global estimates and help fight this epidemic lnkd.in/eNh_g4XQ linkedin.com/posts/childlig…

'Surveys found 7% of British men, equivalent to 1.8 million, admitted online child sexual abuse...300 million+ children globally

...many admitted they would seek to commit physical sexual offences against children if they thought it would be kept secret'

Childlight - Global Child Safety Institute The Guardian

The Childlight - Global Child Safety Institute Into The Light Index website is now live, focused on three indicators of online child sexual abuse:
1. Prevalence of victimisation
2. Prevalence of perpetration
3. Availability of child sexual abuse material

300 million child victims.

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Wrap your head around these numbers. 300 million children. Each year.

🚨a new report shows 1 in 8 children face online sexual abuse/exploitation a year🚨
Some will use this to suggest a smartphone ban is needed

My experience of being sexually groomed from 13-18 online shows how this would have further empowered my abuser🧵

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1in 9 men in the US (equivalent 2 almost 14 million) admitted online offending against children at some point.The research also found many men admitted they’d seek to commit physical sexual offences against children if they thought it would be kept secret. theguardian.com/society/articl…

Delighted to have published this paper with Tim Graham 🌻 in HKS Misinformation Review! Here is a short thread of our findings: 🧵

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it's so cool that they fed every reddit shitpost into this thing and there's probably no way to fix it now

Actively offending child sex offenders are 3x more likely to use WhatsApp (5x Signal, 27x Element) than the general population. All three companies are now mobilising again to prevent any child protection obligations.

Hold them to their record, not their PR claims.

Excited to share that my first sole-authored journal article, ‘Policing perpetrator suicide threats in family violence cases: competing priorities and contemporary challenges’ has been published in Policing and Society. View it here (open access!): tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

“it is important to develop further understanding as to how suicide threats are addressed by police as they attend incidents of family violence, especially given that suicide threats may be weaponised as a form of coercive control” | Deakin University’s Jess Woolley

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Ex-NSW teacher has Child Sexual Abuse conviction quashed because old law didn’t cover women

#CSA #SexualAssault #AbuseByTeacher #FemaleAbuser #MaleSurvivor #Grooming

NSW
Australia
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