Study: Growing number of children sexually abused via webcams

[DreamGypsy]

Source: Annabel Roberts, Correspondent, NBC News

LONDON - The number of cases of children in developing countries being sexually abused in front of webcams in exchange for payment to their families has risen sharply in the last 12 months, British experts warned Tuesday.

Sex offenders are targeting vulnerable families to organize live access to the sexual abuse of their children using Internet video-stream services such as Skype, according to a study by the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.

"This is a problem that is extremely worrying that has emerged over the last twelve months - and is increasing," said Kate Fisher, an analyst with the CEOP.

"They spend time engaging with families, they facilitate the abuse with the family then return to their home country and pay the families and send instruction for that abuse to be put over the webcam", Fisher said.



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A pdf of the report by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre is available here.

Words fail.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Sickos.

[meegbear]

2. If governments are tracking people's communcations for wrongdoing ...

this should be at the top of the list.

[NoMoreWarNow]

3. yes.

[yurbud]

6. this and Wall Street.

[OneGrassRoot]

15. That was my first thought as well. n/t

[NoMoreWarNow]

4. how fucking demented do you have to be, to do something like this?

And why would this sick behavior be going up???

[freedom fighter jh]

5. Hunger?

Say you're the parent of a kid who is a potential victim. You love all your kids, but you are so poor that your whole family is in danger of starvation. Payment for abusing one kid may be enough to secure food for the family for some time into the future. So one child suffers horribly, but several lives are saved.

I'm not saying these parents are making the right choice. But I'm glad I don't have to make it.

[LiberalFighter]

7. I would wonder if they are having financial problems

why do they have a computer and internet access? Are costs for maintaining internet access much lower?

[freedom fighter jh]

8. I confess that I'm only guessing about this.

Could be that whoever is offering them the money is willing to provide them with a computer and Internet access to make the scheme work.

[Neoma]

14. Some places have public Internet access...

People are trying to spread it around as much possible in poor areas because the Internet is an educational tool to help people climb out of poverty...

[NoMoreWarNow]

11. no, I meant the people who pay to see this

they are the horrible evil fucks.

[freedom fighter jh]

12. Can't argue with that nt

[bemildred]

9. Poverty has brutal consequences. nt

[libodem]

10. Poverty

And despair fuel the most depraved acts. How sad. I can only hope the consumers of this smut and the distributors are caught and rehabilitated. The sad thing is I think it may be hard wired into their brain as their genetic sexual preference. Then they can only be kept away from regular society.

[secondwind]

13. this is happening all the time in the Dominican Republic... but nobody cares. :-(