EU report on online child sex abuse ‘a wake up call’

In January 2014, a man was arrested as part of a major investigation into online child sexual exploitation. The individual had more than 80 social networking profiles, email addresses, and video chat accounts to sexually abuse children via webcams on compute

Once victims had sent him an indecent image or video of themselves, he started threatening them and involving them in far more serious abuse.

The youngest child was an eight-year-old girl — she was forced to involve other children in the abuse. The suspect pretended to be a 13-year-old boy.