Studies show that about 1 in 5 children in Europe have experienced some form of sexual violence. More than 100 million images or videos of children being sexually abused were found online last year, and this may be just the tip of the iceberg. As the numbers of reported child sexual abuse online cases increase every year, younger and younger children are targeted, with victims as young as a couple of months old. Behind these images and videos, some real children are experiencing the trauma of the abuse knowing that those images and videos are circulating online out of control.
“For a very long time, I was very stressed, and I slept very badly […] what would happen if those images came out, and what would everyone think of me? […] in my head it had just sort of taken on this enormous catastrophic proportion that my life was going to end” – Nora, Survivor of Sexual Violence.
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