The Internet Watch Foundation said it is the first time it has seen such young children subjected to this kind of abuse
Children as young as between three and six years old are becoming the latest victims in a growing trend of self-generated child sexual abuse,The Internet Watch Foundation said over a one month period it saw 51 examples of self-generated abuse imagery – where children are manipulated into recording their own abuse before it is shared online – including a child aged between three and six. More than half of the cases involved a sibling or friend of the child.
The IWF, which operates a UK hotline but also reports on instances of child sexual abuse material [CSAM] around the world, said the self-generated content is created using webcams or smartphones and then distributed on a number of platforms. It said two-thirds of the reports, which were registered between 11 October and 10 November last year, were either duplicated images or videos, or contained the same children appearing more than once.
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