By Katherine Rushton For The Daily Mail
Published: 00:16 GMT, 23 January 2019 | Updated: 07:32 GMT, 23 January 2019
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More than 100,000 web pages featuring child sex abuse were shut down last year – a rise of a third in just twelve months.
The Internet Watch Foundation – Britain’s online child abuse watchdog – last night revealed that between them the pages hosted more than a million images and videos.
And it warned that predatory paedophiles are increasingly manipulating middle-class children – usually girls aged 11 to 13 – into posting highly sexualised selfies, with one in four of those it removed over the past six months ‘self-generated’ by victims.
More than 100,000 web pages featuring child sex abuse were shut down last year – a rise of a third in just twelve months
In the vast majority of cases they were physically alone but had been duped into filming themselves on smartphones or web cams on their laptops. Many show victims’ toys in the background, and in some videos family members can be heard calling them down to dinner, oblivious to the fact the child is being violated.
Susie Hargreaves, who leads the IWF charity, warned that parents are wrong to assume their children are safe in their rooms. ‘It’s children in nice bedrooms. It is a middle-class
