Internet watchdog removes 30,000 child porn sites over 10 years

MORE than 30,000 websites containing indecent images of children have been removed from the internet over the last 10 years, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said yesterday.

The IWF found that 79% of the child victims in the images were female and that the severity of the images over the last 12 months had significantly increased.

Aside from the suspected child abuse images, 10% of reports related to apparent criminally obscene websites and 5% to suspected incitement to racial hatred.