![]() “We want them to feel empowered to take control, and to understand how to deal with inappropriate requests and report them to a trusted source.” We want to help teenage girls to recognise the actions that constitute self-generated sexual abuse as abuse. We don’t want to frighten people, but we do want to build resilience to the threat of self-generated sexual abuse of children. But the threat and the abuse is shocking. With more people spending more time online, predators are finding new ways to contact and manipulate children who are, in many cases, a captive audience at home with their devices. Susie Hargreaves OBE, Chief Executive of the IWF, said: “The scale of the problem is appalling, and our fear is without intervention it will get worse, and more and more girls will fall victim to this pernicious and manipulative form of abuse. Now, a hard-hitting IWF campaign, backed by the UK Home Office and Microsoft, is aiming to empower girls, and warn parents, about the “dire” risks posed by online predators targeting children. New analysis shows in 80% of these cases, the victims were 11- to 13-year-old girls.This is a 77% increase on 2019’s total of 38,400 reports which included “self-generated” material.It now accounts for nearly half (44%) of the imagery IWF took action on last year (IWF analysts confirmed 153,350 reports of child sexual abuse material in total). In 2020, the IWF confirmed 68,000 cases of self-generated imagery.IWF experts, who work internationally to find and remove child sexual abuse material from the internet, warn this abuse now, for the first time, makes up almost half of what they are finding online. The images and videos of this abuse are then shared widely online. Predators groom, bully and coerce their victims into filming their own sexual abuse on internet-enabled devices, often in the child’s own bedrooms in their family homes. A new analysis released today (April 21) in the Internet Watch Foundation’s (IWF) annual report shows the growing risk of children, particularly girls aged 11-13, being targeted by criminal sex predators.
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