A quarter of images detected ‘appeared to have been generated by children themselves’, Hotline.ie warns
said “virtual” child abuse online had been steadily increasing over the past five years. Last year marked an “all-time high” in such images being detected.
The severity of the abuse ranged from “explicit sexual activity of a child to penetrative sexual assault of a child by an adult, to sadistic sexual torture and bestiality involving a child”.launched its dedicated service targeting intimate image abuse – the sharing of intimate images or videos without consent.
Launching the report, acting Minister for Justice Simon Harris underlined the “important, worthy and difficult work” done by“Each image is a crime,” he said. “Each image has a victim, or victims, who have suffered abuse, and who are re-victimised each time their abuse is viewed as it is shared across the globe. We must never become hardened or inured to these figures.”, said it could be “overwhelming” uncovering the online abuse “but we can’t afford to look away”.
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