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Web giants aid child porn hotline Child porn websites 'worsening'
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Top internet companies have joined forces to publicise a hotline to report online child pornography. More than seven websites showing child pornography are reported to the police every day, an online charity has said.
Internet giants AOL, Tiscali, Yahoo! and MSN are supporting the work of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) also said new research showed the images, which included rape, sadism and bestiality, had become more severe.
Through the hotline, the IWF offers a "notice and take-down" service to police and internet service providers. Now web giants including Tiscali, Yahoo and MSN are helping to publicise the IWF's hotline, which allows internet users to report these sites.
The coalition will run adverts on their websites and e-mail customers. The IWF said 12.5m people in the UK have come across online child pornography. About 1.5m UK adults had accessed child pornography online, the IWF said.
The chief executive of the charity, Peter Robbins, said new research showed the severity of the images, including rape and bestiality, continued to increase. It also said more than a third of all child sexual abuse sites contained images of the most severe kinds of abuse.
'Terrible sexual abuse' Nearly one in three children appearing on the sites were under six years old, while one in 20 were under the age of two, the IWF said.
Mr Robbins said: "Our analysts witness the results of terrible sexual abuse being inflicted on very young children around the world and then circulated online. Vigilance in UK
The charity's chief executive, Peter Robbins, said: "Our analysts witness the results of terrible sexual abuse being inflicted on very young children around the world and then circulated online.
"With the help of the online industry, the 28 hotlines we work with around the world and our law enforcement colleagues, the public can help us to remove these websites and end the abuse that is perpetuated every time the images are viewed.""With the help of the online industry, the 28 hotlines we work with around the world and our law enforcement colleagues, the public can help us to remove these websites and end the abuse that is perpetuated every time the images are viewed."
The charity said that due to vigilance, industry and police partnerships and swift responses, online child sexual abuse content hosted in the UK has plummeted from 18% in 1997 to 1% since 2003. Through the hotline, the IWF offers a "notice and take-down" service to police and internet service providers.
Despite these successes, due to the nature of the internet, child pornography sites can still be accessed from around the world. The internet companies will run adverts on their websites and among e-mail customers as part of an awareness day.
The IWF said that during 2007 it had passed on details of 2,092 sexual abuse websites to police and child protection agencies. The charity said of all the sites reported to them in 2007 just 1% could be traced back to a UK server, compared with 18% 10 years ago.
The IWF said so far this year it had passed on details of 2,092 child sexual abuse websites to police and child protection agencies.
The awareness day will be followed by a series of regional presentations for professionals concerned with tackling online sexual abuse of children.The awareness day will be followed by a series of regional presentations for professionals concerned with tackling online sexual abuse of children.