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 fucked a flesh and blood 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.
When there is “significant increase in every measure”, then that usually means that they changed the measure.
I’m honestly shocked there are that many pedophiles out there. What is WRONG with people?
Well, it’s a 1000 suspects, not necessarily 1000 convicted. And sadly, there are false accusations for examplentoo.
Then again, if only 10% of such a 1000 is a legitimate suspect, then that’s shocking enough.
I’m questioning the numbers. First off, they are suspects, secondly, what are the determining qualifiers? It wouldn’t shock me that the UK, who is in the process of creating a total surveillance shitopia using the justification of “protecting children” would have incentive to adopt extra broad definitions to scare people like yourself into believing pedos are everywhere around you so you would support their political agenda.
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
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.
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.
Lack of self-control or empathy, paired with a fucked up mind. Same as serial killers, I’d guess.
Many sociopaths are not limited by their lack of empathy and are able to navigate the systems of society with ease in ways that people with morals simply can’t or won’t. As a result, it seems likely that a very high proportion of the people historically and currently in powerful positions are in fact sociopaths. Our systems were never designed to defeat sociopathic tendencies, in fact they tend to reward them. And now that the sociopaths are in power, they begin to realize that nobody can stop them, and they become even more brazen as they make sure the systems reward them even more, and make systems that will never stop rewarding them.
I wonder how many of the Trump-Epstein Class are serial killers. We already know for sure many of them have blood on their hands
Sorry to break it to you
world stats
Key takeaways
The prevalence of sexual violence against children (SVAC) is high, with nearly one out of five women and one out of seven men around the globe who are survivors.
Regardless of regional or economic status, SVAC prevalence among women is substantial, even in high-income countries such as the Netherlands (30%), New Zealand (29%), the US (28%), and the UK (24%).
Low- and middle-income nations like Chile, Costa Rica, India, and Rwanda recorded a high prevalence among women of at least 30%; among men in Bangladesh and Côte d’Ivoire, the prevalence was 28%.
Well, when all the world leaders are doing it, and none of them have been punished for it… maybe some people now think that’s the way you become president, like your parents always told you you could. See, we’ve just been doing it wrong all along, apparently the secret skill we were lacking was fucking children /s
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).
That is a lot. Good for the UK police.
Charges aren’t convictions.
The Online Safety Act, while a help, was not enough, police said.
