10 New Cases Of Online Child Abuse Every Second, Study Finds. Here's How India Is Fighting Back

A new global report warns of a surge in tech-facilitated child abuse, with AI worsening the threat. India now stands at the centre of global efforts to fight this hidden pandemic.

Children are contacted on gaming platforms or social media, groomed into trusting abusers or pressured and threatened into sending sexual images.

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By Paul Stanfield Every year, 300 million children are estimated to face sexual abuse and exploitation facilitated through technology. That’s 10 new cases every second, and these are not abstract numbers. Behind each statistic is a child whose safety, dignity and future have been jeopardised. In our latest report, Into the Light Index, “In South Asia, we found representative survey data in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, around 1 in 8 children (12.5%) report such abuse before the age