Increasing Sexual Predators on the Internet

The United Nations (UN) has warned that some 750 000 sexual predators are constantly prowling the Internet to gain contact with children.

Najat Maala, UN special rapporteur on the child prostitution and child pornography issue, points out that, “The number of sites devoted to child pornography worldwide is growing."

Maala, who also estimates that there are more than four million websites featuring minors, including those of children aged under two years, says that more than 200 new images are also circulated daily. She further states that images of sexually exploited children are not only growing in number but are also increasingly shocking, adding that between 10 000 and 100 000 minors are victims of the child pornography network.

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