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Children as young as three ‘coerced into sexual abuse acts online’

Source: PA Wire

Children as young as three are being manipulated into acts sexual abuse, with the images and videos now being found on the open internet, a new report says.

The latest study from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) found thousands of images and videos online of three to six-year-olds who had been groomed, coerced or tricked into sexually abusive acts.

The IWF, which proactively tracks down and removes child sexual abuse imagery online, said

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