Online child sexual abuse imagery created by children ‘up 77% in a year’, UK charity finds

The IWF figures show that 44% of the child sexual abuse content dealt with by the organisation last year involved self-generated material (Peter Byrne/PA)

The number of child sexual abuse images and videos created by children has soared by more than three-quarters in a year, figures show.

Analysts from the British charity Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) sifted through 299,600 reports of potentially illegal material in 2020, up 15% from the previous year.