Child sexual abuse in the UK is soaring, police have said, with 1,000 paedophile suspects being arrested each month and the number of children being rescued from harm rising by 50% in the last five years.
The National Crime Agency said the growth in offending across the UK was driven by technology and linked to the radicalisation of offenders in online forums, encouraging people to view images of child sexual abuse by reassuring them it was normal.
Most contact with children happened on mainstream social media platforms, with algorithms pushing paedophilic material to people who have shown a previous interest in it.
The significant increase in every measure “really worries us”, said Rob Jones, the NCA’s director general of operations.
Leads about people interested in sexually abusing children had risen tenfold in a decade, he said, with 1,200 children a month being safeguarded.
Arresting 1000 a month for computer images, but not one former prince who
fuckedraped a flesh and blood child.fuckedraped*Yes. I stand corrected. The former prince raped a child.
How many are convicted and how many found guilty? Also is this a case of more crime or just being better at finding crime that was always there? Honestly not sure how you would be able to tell for that though.
I’m honestly shocked there are that many pedophiles out there. What is WRONG with people?
What’s been shocking me is just how rampant pedophilia actually is. What the fuck is it that draws so many people (primarily powerful cis men) to it? It’s fucking disgusting
The perception that it’s primarily powerful men is a distortion from the Epstein files. Those are the ones that can traffic victims maybe, but more often sexual assaults on children are by people known to the victim, like family or friends of family.
If you want a real answer it’s likely mostly because humans only recently became “civilised” as far as our evolutionary past is concerned.
For our entire history before that, it has been evolutionarily advantageous to breed as early as biologically possible.
These genetics still exist and having attraction to minors still haunts humanity. Some studies show very large numbers of adults, in the realm of 10-25% of the population, are attracted to minors. Usually the definition is below the age of consent in the country of the study.
Almost all of these people understand it’s wrong and do not pursue these unwanted feelings. When people have overlaps between psychopathy, trauma or other conditions and the attraction to minors they often become offenders.
People don’t just wear signs saying they’re a pedo.
Odds are some of the people you know are pedos without you suspecting it.
Most contact with children happened on mainstream social media platforms, with algorithms pushing paedophilic material to people who have shown a previous interest in it.
What if we lived in a society which offered these people counciling instead of CSAM
Sweet do trump next
Last time I checked he isn’t from the UK
He visits Russia more than UK
I had the same thought, except “do the US next, and start at the top.” Because so what if you jail 1000 paedophiles in the US. They’re all empowered by knowing their president is one as well and that he seems untouchable. Just like he’s empowered racists and homophobes and others who identify as like him.
The UK has done a fabulous job; they’ve had a lot of high profile cases and there’s still much work to be done, but they heard a royal was in the Trump-Epstein files and they stripped him of his title. That’s awesome and people in the US would love to see the same happen to their “royals” (i.e. the wealthy).
Maduro him
Not one of them an ex prince
At least they are being arrested… Looking at the dystopian shithole across the pond 👀
You think any of these 1000 pedos are Prince Andrew?
No. No they aren’t.
“Child rape for me, not for thee.” - our oligarchs
spoiler
Have fun getting up and going to work.
On one hand I’m mad they’re raping children, but when you frame it as them not making me do it too there’s at least that
Sadly he isn’t. But in Norway it’s a different story.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/norway-prince-rape-marius-borg-hoiby-b2912127.html
This is good, and I’m glad he’s being charged. I hope Norway continues this trend.
That being said, I feel like there’s something odd about being proud of charging a rapist (granted, he is a rapist in power so him being charged is a very good thing) when there are people like the former prime minister who probably raped kids (he’s under investigation, time can only tell what will happen there).
Idk, it seems like a hollow victory — my sense of justice is telling me that so so much more needs to be done, and it needs to be done yesterday.
That is a lot. Good for the UK police.
Charges aren’t convictions.
These folks would be great for political office in the US.
The Online Safety Act, while a help, was not enough, police said.
I’m wondering if this is because how social media and internet culture fucks up the minds of young women, who then do sexy dances en poses for all the world to see.
I installed Instagram to talk with a friend for a while and I noticed that the feed, without any interaction from me yet, was just young women “being sexy”. In many cases I suspect them to be underage.
Are you blaming children for pedophilia?
I’m blaming social media for supporting this unhealthy behavior and not protecting them well enough. I’m in my 30s and the first content I get served right after installing the app was sexualized jailbait. I scrolled trough the list and there were a lot. We’re in new times where this content is literally getting pushed onto us on a daily basis.
