More than half of young people in the North have been asked for a sexual image or video of themselves by another person.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has urged the Government to consider forcing internet service providers (ISP) to block access by young people to online pornography.

Internet giants including Google could face tough new laws unless they take further steps to tackle graphic images of child abuse online, David Cameron has warned.

Child sexual abuse streamed live over the internet on services like Skype has been flagged as an emerging threat by experts.

The Jimmy Savile scandal may not have a big enough effect on social attitudes towards child abuse, a former leading judge in England said today.

Almost 80 people including a Scout leader, a retired teacher and members of the Armed Forces have been arrested in raids as part of an operation targeting suspected internet paedophiles in Britain.

A gang of nine Asian men was yesterday found guilty of plying white girls as young as 13 with drink and drugs so they could “pass them around” and use them for sex.

Twelve men have been arrested in Britain on suspicion of a string of child exploitation offences including causing the prostitution of young girls, trafficking, grooming and rape.

Three men were jailed today after they admitted running an international paedophile ring that distributed millions of indecent images and films of children to over 40 countries around the world.

A RECORD number of children have been rescued by British Police authorities from paedophiles prowling the internet for the fifth consecutive year, a specialist police unit said.

More than 120 suspected paedophiles have been arrested in Britain as part of one of the biggest global investigations ever mounted into child abuse networks on the internet, police said today.

The outgoing chief of Britain’s child protection agency and the host of US TV show 'America’s Most Wanted' posed as paedophiles to investigate the sex trafficking of Cambodian youngsters.

FACEBOOK has joined forces with a British child protection agency to create a “panic button” application on its site, it was announced yesterday, as the social networking giant finally gave in to calls to do more to protect youngsters online.

A SUSPECTED paedophile who fled to England to escape trial has been recaptured and extradited to Canada.

A suspected paedophile who fled to England to escape trial has been recaptured and extradited, police said today.

Facebook today responded to calls to step up online security by announcing a raft of new measures to “transform social networking safety”.

The North's new chief constable has vowed to build on the work of the man he will succeed, Hugh Orde.

Leicestershire police chief Matt Baggott was tonight appointed as the new Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

The successor to the North's police chief Hugh Orde will be decided today as four high-ranking candidates face a rigorous interview process in Belfast.

Britain’s most wanted paedophile is to be extradited from Ireland to the UK despite a “cynical” attempt by his brother to block it.

Britain’s most wanted paedophile will learn today whether he faces being extradited from Ireland to the UK after seven years on the run.

One of the UK’s most wanted child sex offenders could be extradited back to Britain within weeks, it emerged today.

Chilling interviews with convicted paedophiles could hold the key to protecting millions of children from abuse.

A FUGITIVE paedophile will appear in the High Court today to face extradition back to Britain.

Madeleine McCann's parents will make an emotional TV appeal tonight for Irish tourists to scan holiday snaps for clues on their child's whereabouts.

ONE of Britain’s ‘most wanted’ paedophiles DJ-ed at a school disco in Ireland attended by girls aged as young as five years while he was on the run, a BBC documentary to be shown today will claim.

As the search for missing Madeleine McCann entered its sixth day today, efforts to home in on her abductor stepped up a gear.

THERE are currently up to 800,000 Irish people using social networking site Bebo — and it is second only to Google as the most widely used website in Ireland.

THE woman charged with keeping social networking site Bebo free from paedophiles and pornography is to set up a service in Ireland that allows users to report illegal activity directly to gardaí.

Two men are due in court in the North today charged with possession and production of child pornography.

Seven suspected paedophiles were in custody in the North tonight as part of a major police drive against child pornography.