2+ Million Images Traded by 100 Child Sex Offenders

April 29, 2010

In England, the non-profit organization NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) delved into court cases in the UK and discovered that 100 child sex offenders had traded over two million images of children being sexually abused on the Internet.  In an interview with Sky News, Diana Sutton of the NSPCC said, “The scale of graphic child sex abuse pictures and videos over the internet is very alarming. The number of images seized in these cases is enough to cover the pitch at Wembley Stadium twice over – and this is just a sample. Children and babies are being seriously sexually assaulted to feed the demand for these photos and videos. And each time they are viewed, more degradation is heaped on the young victims.”

Although more and more of these offenders are being caught, still only less than 1% are ever brought to justice.  Suttons says, “The battle is far from won. Offenders are now trying to keep under the radar by using peer-to-peer file-sharing software instead.”

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