{"id":50200,"date":"2025-12-12T06:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/online-child-sexual-abuse-surges-by-26-in-year-as-police-say-tech-firms-must-act-31\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T06:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:04:43","slug":"online-child-sexual-abuse-surges-by-26-in-year-as-police-say-tech-firms-must-act-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/online-child-sexual-abuse-surges-by-26-in-year-as-police-say-tech-firms-must-act-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Online child sexual abuse surges by 26% in year as police say tech firms must act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Figures for England and Wales show there were  51,672 offences for child sexual exploitation and abuse online in 2024<\/p>\n<p>Online child sexual abuse in England and Wales has surged by a quarter within a year, figures show, prompting police to call for social media platforms to do more to protect young people.<\/p>\n<p>Becky Riggs, the acting chief constable of Staffordshire police, called for tech companies to use AI tools to automatically prevent indecent pictures from being uploaded and shared on their sites.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/dec\/11\/online-child-sexual-abuse-surges-by-26-percent-in-year-as-police-say-tech-firms-must-act\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figures for England and Wales show there were 51,672 offences for child sexual exploitation and abuse online in 2024 Online child sexual abuse in England and Wales has surged by a quarter within a year, figures show, prompting police to call for social media platforms to do more to protect young people. Becky Riggs, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}