Live streaming of child sex abuse via webcams has emerged as a method of exploitation, experts have warned, amid a doubling of reported indecent images. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) said children were being ‘abused to order’. Offenders targeted vulnerable families overseas, paying them to facilitate child abuse, according to its report. CEOP said those carrying out abuse used a ‘hidden internet’ to disguise their identity and avoid detection. Their report found the number of still and moving child abuse images reported to CEOP had doubled in the last year to 70,000. The child protection body - part of the Home Office's Serious Organised Crime Agency - said it received 8,000 reports of indecent images of children being shared last year. It said live streaming emerged in 2012 as a means of producing and distributing images. ‘We're seeing cases where they're effectively being abused to order for paying customers,’ Chief Executive Peter Davies told the BBC.

Pray: that CEOP will have success in exposing offenders who distribute such material and especially as they use live streaming. (Eph.5:11)

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