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National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) announced that two offenders are being convicted every day for possessing child abuse images.
"This is an alarming study and just a fragment of the hundreds of other similar convictions during the same period," said Claire Lilley, head of child safety online for the NSPCC.
The NSPCC's snapshot analysis suggested that since the call for action (which resulted in ISP-level pr0n filters), more than 4.5m images have been seized by police in 100 criminal cases taken to court, which saw 101 offenders imprisoned for a total of 49 years.
Only two of those convicted were women, and four out of 10 were given community orders or told to do unpaid work.
The NSPCC states that one in three convicted sex offenders held positions of trust, or occupied roles that allowed them access to children.
Fred Langford, the deputy CEO of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), stated that while "we're not in a place where we say 'job done'... it is important to recognise that here in the UK we have one of the most robust systems in the world for tackling online child sexual abuse images and videos. In fact, our analysts are identifying more of this imagery than ever before."
The IWF's last report declared a 136 per cent increase in identified and subsequently removed child abuse imagery
"This is an alarming study and just a fragment of the hundreds of other similar convictions during the same period," said Claire Lilley, head of child safety online for the NSPCC.
The NSPCC's snapshot analysis suggested that since the call for action (which resulted in ISP-level pr0n filters), more than 4.5m images have been seized by police in 100 criminal cases taken to court, which saw 101 offenders imprisoned for a total of 49 years.
Only two of those convicted were women, and four out of 10 were given community orders or told to do unpaid work.
The NSPCC states that one in three convicted sex offenders held positions of trust, or occupied roles that allowed them access to children.
Fred Langford, the deputy CEO of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), stated that while "we're not in a place where we say 'job done'... it is important to recognise that here in the UK we have one of the most robust systems in the world for tackling online child sexual abuse images and videos. In fact, our analysts are identifying more of this imagery than ever before."
The IWF's last report declared a 136 per cent increase in identified and subsequently removed child abuse imagery
