Public report 'hundreds of thousands' of child abuse images to Irish watchdog

Hotline.ie said 2020 was a year “unlike any other” with a 142% rise in child sexual abuse material which appeared to be self-generated images or videos

According to its 2020 annual report, there were 10,583 public reports made to Hotline.ie. File photo

A quarter of the reports made to an Irish internet watchdog resulted in it identifying hundreds of thousands of child sexual abuse images and videos.

Hotline.ie, the primary national channel where members of the public can anonymously report suspected illegal content online, witnessed child sexual abuse material being spread across all available digital mediums in 2020.