Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Facebook is a 'major location for online child sexual grooming'

Facebook is one of the UK’s major online locations for child sex grooming, according to the head of Britain's top child abuse investigating agency.

Peter Davies, chief executive of Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, said that half of all child sexual exploitation takes place on social networks

British children were being “harvested” by foreign abusers who were getting access to children in their homes over the internet.

He told MPs in the House of Commons: “It is not uncommon to encounter situations where offenders in one country will target and harvest victims in a completely different part of the world.”

Mr Davies said that half of all online child sexual exploitation was taking place over social networks, and suggested they could do more to stop to abuse.

 He said: “At the moment we are seeing half of this kind of activity, online child sexual exploitation, taking place through social networking site. Full story...

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