Narrative
He brings you to the room with the chair and the computer. Say hello to the camera, Rodney tells you, and you do. In the beginning, it’s just hello. It’s later when he pulls at the neckline of your shirt. No, Papa, you say. Your clothes are disappearing, shirt, shorts, panties, all gone, and Rodney saying, it’s okay, it’s okay.
Abstract from Stolen: pretty girls by Patricia Evangelista (2018)
This quote of a young victim of online sexual abuse is the daily reality for an astonishing number of children worldwide. Scroll down for some statistics.
NextOverview
Some Facts
Online-facilitated sexual child exploitation and abuse is snowballing
At any given moment, 3/4 of a million individuals are looking on the internet to engage with children in sexual activities.
(end-Violence.org)
18% of the online Sexual abuse was categorised as Category A, which includes the rape and sexual torture of children. (ifw.org)
By far most cases of Online-facilitated sexual child exploitation and abuse, the age of the victims varies between only 1–12 years.
(ijm.org)
The Department of Justice of the Philippines reports an increase of online sexual exploitation of children by 264 percent during Covid-19 pandemic.
(gov.PH)
E-Safety Commissioner found an 86% increase in reports of ‘image-based abuse’ during 3 weeks of March and April 2020.
(ijm.org)
Web-IQ detected a 200% increase in posts on sex abuse forums between February and March 2020 (WePROTECT.org)
Online sexual abuse of children in the Philippines tripled in 3 years, according to a new study. The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Cybercrime in the Philippines received at least 600,000 cybertips of sexual images of Filipino children in 2018 according to news agency Rappler.
Despite all current efforts, it seems that online-facilitated sexual exploitation and abuse of children keeps on expanding rapidly.