Child sexual abuse in the UK is soaring, police have said, with 1,000 paedophile suspects being arrested each month and the number of children being rescued from harm rising by 50% in the last five years.
The National Crime Agency said the growth in offending across the UK was driven by technology and linked to the radicalisation of offenders in online forums, encouraging people to view images of child sexual abuse by reassuring them it was normal.
Most contact with children happened on mainstream social media platforms, with algorithms pushing paedophilic material to people who have shown a previous interest in it.
The significant increase in every measure “really worries us”, said Rob Jones, the NCA’s director general of operations.
Leads about people interested in sexually abusing children had risen tenfold in a decade, he said, with 1,200 children a month being safeguarded.
It really is pedofile island
Not one of them an ex prince
These folks would be great for political office in the US.
I’m wondering if this is because how social media and internet culture fucks up the minds of young women, who then do sexy dances en poses for all the world to see.
I installed Instagram to talk with a friend for a while and I noticed that the feed, without any interaction from me yet, was just young women “being sexy”. In many cases I suspect them to be underage.
I installed Instagram to talk with a friend for a while and I noticed that the feed, without any interaction from me yet, was just young women “being sexy”. In many cases I suspect them to be underage.
Meta keeps a shadow profile on everyone regardless of if they have an account or not
Are you blaming children for pedophilia?
So me having to verify my age to buy NSFW games on steam and to use discord has accomplished nothing in the fight to protect children online?
Well colour me surprised.
I don’t think age verification for games and movies and such are meant to protect against sexual abuse. They’re there to protect the ‘feeble mind’ of children
It’s to surveil the population.
Well I agree that that’s a huge risk, but apparently they don’t even have the manpower to round up all the pedophiles
At least they are being arrested… Looking at the dystopian shithole across the pond 👀
You think any of these 1000 pedos are Prince Andrew?
No. No they aren’t.
Sadly he isn’t. But in Norway it’s a different story.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/norway-prince-rape-marius-borg-hoiby-b2912127.html
This is good, and I’m glad he’s being charged. I hope Norway continues this trend.
That being said, I feel like there’s something odd about being proud of charging a rapist (granted, he is a rapist in power so him being charged is a very good thing) when there are people like the former prime minister who probably raped kids (he’s under investigation, time can only tell what will happen there).
Idk, it seems like a hollow victory — my sense of justice is telling me that so so much more needs to be done, and it needs to be done yesterday.
“Child rape for me, not for thee.” - our oligarchs
spoiler
Have fun getting up and going to work.
On one hand I’m mad they’re raping children, but when you frame it as them not making me do it too there’s at least that
Arresting 1000 a month for computer images, but not one former prince who
fuckedraped a flesh and blood child.Arresting 1000 a month for computer images, but not one former prince who
fuckedraped a flesh and blood child.Words matter
I stand corrected.
fuckedraped*Yes. I stand corrected. The former prince raped a child.
Most contact with children happened on mainstream social media platforms, with algorithms pushing paedophilic material to people who have shown a previous interest in it.
What if we lived in a society which offered these people counciling instead of CSAM
What if we regulated the social media companies and outlawed algorithmic radicalisation?
Well, how many counselors do you have?
We would need a lot of counselors not saying it’s not worth it though.
Well we’d have to know how many hours it takes to ‘turn’ a pedophile
My guess is it’s about as difficult as it is to turn a heterosexual person gay
City or phsychological?
How many are convicted and how many found guilty? Also is this a case of more crime or just being better at finding crime that was always there? Honestly not sure how you would be able to tell for that though.
I’m honestly shocked there are that many pedophiles out there. What is WRONG with people?
People don’t just wear signs saying they’re a pedo.
Odds are some of the people you know are pedos without you suspecting it.
Police said there was no typical offender and previously it had been estimated that up to 840,000 adults in the UK had a sexual interest in children.
If you’re easily shocked, don’t compare that to the total number of adults in the UK
Well, it’s a 1000 suspects, not necessarily 1000 convicted. And sadly, there are false accusations for examplentoo.
Then again, if only 10% of such a 1000 is a legitimate suspect, then that’s shocking enough.
I’m questioning the numbers. First off, they are suspects, secondly, what are the determining qualifiers? It wouldn’t shock me that the UK, who is in the process of creating a total surveillance shitopia using the justification of “protecting children” would have incentive to adopt extra broad definitions to scare people like yourself into believing pedos are everywhere around you so you would support their political agenda.
What’s been shocking me is just how rampant pedophilia actually is. What the fuck is it that draws so many people (primarily powerful cis men) to it? It’s fucking disgusting
Lack of self-control or empathy, paired with a fucked up mind. Same as serial killers, I’d guess.
I wonder how many of the Trump-Epstein Class are serial killers. We already know for sure many of them have blood on their hands
Think tek knight from the boys.
When there is “significant increase in every measure”, then that usually means that they changed the measure.
Sweet do trump next
Last time I checked he isn’t from the UK
He visits Russia more than UK
Maduro him
the head of lettuce PM visited him recently.
I had the same thought, except “do the US next, and start at the top.” Because so what if you jail 1000 paedophiles in the US. They’re all empowered by knowing their president is one as well and that he seems untouchable. Just like he’s empowered racists and homophobes and others who identify as like him.
The UK has done a fabulous job; they’ve had a lot of high profile cases and there’s still much work to be done, but they heard a royal was in the Trump-Epstein files and they stripped him of his title. That’s awesome and people in the US would love to see the same happen to their “royals” (i.e. the wealthy).
That is a lot. Good for the UK police.
Charges aren’t convictions.
The Online Safety Act, while a help, was not enough, police said.
