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The suspect, arrested in January 2024, had also «offered his young son for games.» The child was subsequently handed over to child protection services. The Bavarian criminal police said officers raided 96 locations, targeting 103 individual suspects within Germany. Guido Limmer, deputy head of the Bavarian criminal police, said police last month carried out searches in the «largest operation ever» organized by Europol.

Immediate control, in the digital context, could mean having access to the material through a phone or computer, even if not actively viewed. The Court held that if such material is stored, and the accused chooses not to delete it or fails to report it, it satisfies the requirement of constructive possession, triggering legal consequences under Section 15(1) of POCSO Act. This interpretation aligns with the broader understanding of constructive possession, where intent and control over the material, rather than mere physical possession, determine liability. This approach broadens the scope of liability for those consuming child pornography online. Our work specifically relates to images and videos showing child sexual abuse online. Creating explicit pictures of children is illegal, even if they are generated using AI, and IWF analysts work with police forces and tech providers to remove and trace images they find online.

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The targeted images are limited to those taken when clients were under 18. Each company that receives the digital fingerprint from «Take It Down» should then make efforts to remove the images or limit their spread. The group asks the operators of content-sharing sites to remove certain images on behalf of people who appear in them. The Court held that possession extends beyond merely holding the material physically. Constructive possession occurs when a person has control or access to such material, even if it’s stored digitally or on a device not directly in their hands.

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The biggest demographic committing child pornography crimes in Japan is a group of people not that much older than the victims, newly released police data shows. German authorities said they had tried to identify child sex abuse victims while the investigation was progressing. In order to make the AI images so realistic, the software is trained on existing sexual abuse images, according to the IWF.

The contradictions in High Court judgements largely centred around the interpretation of intent — whether the accused intended to distribute, transmit, or use the material for commercial purposes. The Hon’ble Supreme Court noted that none of these rulings adequately addressed the issue of consumption of CSEAM online without downloading, a gap in jurisprudence that the current judgment seeks to fill. In Germany, police carried out raids at 96 locations, targeting child porn 103 individual suspects, the Bavarian criminal police said. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading.

• Andy Burrows, the NSPCC’s head of policy for child safety online, sees its impact differently.
• «All he wanted from me is to pass videos to him of children having sex. It didn’t matter to him where this took place.»
• Among them was a 36-year-old man in the eastern German city of Chemnitz who had searched for abuse images on the platform.
• The NSPCC says there is no accountability placed on senior managers, unlike the regulation of financial services where directors of companies can be criminally liable.
• The number of child victims is up 2.3 times from a decade ago, while the number of cases detected by police increased by 1.8 times.

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• «The child doesn’t know he or she is being exploited. Imagine a childhood spent grappling with the notion of betrayal and abuse,» says Krishnan.
• Instead, it’s crucial that children and youth have the tools and the education to navigate social media, the internet, and other digital media safely.
• You can download our guidebook, “Let’s Talk”, which offers advice and suggestions on how to go about preparing for and carrying out difficult types of conversations with adults whose behaviors concern us.
• A joint raid by German and Dutch authorities resulted in the seizure of a hard drive with around 72,000 videos of child sex abuse.

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• What we know is that child sexual abuse material (also called child pornography) is illegal in the United States including in California.
• The suspect, arrested in January 2024, had also «offered his young son for games.» The child was subsequently handed over to child protection services.
• If you’d like to find out what happens with your report, you can leave an email address and request we get in touch.
• Hertfordshire Police told us that a 14-year-old girl had managed to use her grandmother’s passport and bank details to sell explicit images.
• Kanajiri Kazuna, chief director at the NPO, says it is a bit of a cat-and-mouse game ― that even after content is erased, it may remain elsewhere on the internet.

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• If you find what you believe to be sexual images of children on the internet, report this immediately to authorities by contacting Cybertipline.
• That was followed closely by violations for posting such content online, at 39.6 percent.
• Image stores also allow vast quantities of images to be indexed and saved, however these are not as easily accessible to the public as an image host or cyberlocker site.
• Last month, a former British Army officer who arranged for children to be sexually abused in the Philippines while he watched online was jailed.
• In 2023, as in previous years, image hosts were the website type most frequently abused by offenders distributing child sexual abuse imagery.

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• Last October, Prajwala, a Hyderabad-based NGO that rescues and rehabilitates sex trafficking survivors, came across some disturbing footage of child pornography on the internet.
• Europol said Kidflix was set up in 2021 and became one of the world’s largest pedophile networks, with users downloading and streaming videos showing abuse for a fee.
• «I just DM (direct message/direct message) a lot,» said another account.
• Reports of suspected cases of online child sex abuse across the world have soared from just over 100,000 five years ago to more than 18 million last year, figures from the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children suggest.
• We were also able to set up an account for an underage creator, by using a 26-year-old’s identification, showing how the site’s age-verification process could be cheated.
• Under-18s have used fake identification to set up accounts, and police say a 14-year-old used a grandmother’s passport.

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BBC News has discovered that under-18s are also appearing in explicit videos on accounts run by adults in violation of OnlyFans’ guidelines. Although there are ways in which kids are vulnerable online, there are proactive steps that parents, caregivers and other loving adults can take to increase safety. These resources offer some more guidance about online safety for children and youth. There are several ways that a person might sexually exploit a child or youth online.

However, Hon’ble Supreme Court held that even accessing CSEAM online, regardless of storing or distributing the material, amounts to “constructive possession” of such content and is punishable under Section 15 of the POCSO Act. This ruling broadens the understanding of what constitutes possession of child pornography, ensuring that individuals who access these materials are held accountable, even if they do not store, download or distribute it. Many adults who are struggling with concerning sexual thoughts and feelings towards children can and have gone on to live lives that are both fulfilling and safe. The type of professional you’re looking for would be someone who specializes in adults sexual behavior concerns or sex-specific treatment. Bavarian investigators on Wednesday said they had dismantled a hub used to distribute child sex abuse images that had some 1.8 million users worldwide.