The images our analysts remove range from the rape and torture of babies to the grooming of teenagers, young people just trying to form relationships in a digital world. Sometimes they don’t even realise that they’re being trapped until it’s too late.
Each child is a real victim. They may be different ages, come from different countries, have different skin colours, or languages, but their suffering is the same.
Every time the record of abuse is shared online, every time someone views the trauma, these children are abused again. The abuse is perpetual. To a child or young person, it must feel never-ending.
That’s why we do what we do. We stop, remove and prevent child sexual abuse online.
Your support helps fund cutting-edge technology and tools developed to stop images of abuse being shared online.
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Partner with usAs part of our job we help children like Zara, by removing the online record of their abuse. In 2022 alone, we destroyed over 255,000 webpages each containing hundreds, even thousands of abusive images of children.
Nearly one in four of the images were of children under ten. Sadly, the younger the child, the more severe the abuse appeared to be.
As a non-profit charity, every penny donated goes towards our vital work and making sure our analysts can stop, remove, and prevent images of child sexual abuse on the internet.
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us to ‘hash’ images of child sexual abuse, preventing them from being shared or uploaded to the internet.
us to issue several ‘Takedown Notices’ to companies hosting child sexual abuse imagery preventing repeat victimisation every time images of their abuse are viewed or shared.
two of our Hotline analysts to have counselling sessions, part of our duty of care to help ensure they cope with the horror of what they witness in the nature of their work.
*Names have been changed to protect the victim's identity.