ChildAbuse
By Billy Wong and Cherry Kee of the Hong Kong Committee on Children’s Rights April 30 is International Spank Out Day, urging the public to stop the corporal punishment of children. But can the policies and laws of Hong Kong comply with this objective? The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child defines corporal punishment as any punishment in which physical force is used and intended to cause some degree of pain or discomfort, however light. Corporal punishment is still the most common form of violence against children. According to data provided by End Violence Against Children, 8...
Hong Kong Free Press
There was an 8 per cent increase in child sexual abuse imagery in 2023 compared to the previous year, making it the worst in history, according to a new report from the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). The charity, which tracks and takes down pages with explicit content featuring children, found over 270,000 web pages last year, roughly one every two minutes, with some featuring thousands of images or videos. The report also found that Germany’s .de domain was targeted by criminals advertising “the most extreme types of child sexual abuse” in 2023. With over 3,000 addresses, the domai...
Euronews (English)
The findings uncover an uncomfortable truth about how children are left to their own devices when navigating the digital world, increasing their vulnerability to harm. Conducted by non-governmental organisations ECPAT International, Eurochild and Terre des Hommes Netherlands, the study involved focus group discussions with 483 children from 15 countries, including ten EU member states. Many of those children said they prefer to keep their online activities to themselves and struggle to talk with adults about the risks they face online. Others said they filter what they tell their parents and c...
Euronews (English)
A 38-year-old woman has been charged with a child abuse offence after her four-year-old daughter was found to have a total of 11 bruises and injuries on her body. The girl had lost consciousness in a bathtub home on Saturday and was sent to hospital. The case was mentioned at Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts on Monday. The suspect faces one count of ill-treatment or neglect by those in charge of child or young person. She was granted bail pending trial next month. The girl was living with her mother and two senior brothers at a private residential building in Kowloon City, local media reported...
Hong Kong Free Press
Even though a majority of people are concerned about artificial intelligence (AI), roughly 70 per cent are unaware that it’s already being used to create child sexual abuse content, a new survey shows. The Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a UK-based child protection charity, surveyed over 2,500 people in the UK and around 88 per cent of people surveyed agreed that AI-generated sexual images of under-18s should be illegal. However, just 40 per cent of those surveyed either didn’t know it was the case or thought that this content was legal in the UK. In the EU and the UK, it is illegal to create, view...
Euronews (English)
Lawmakers and governments today (15 February) agreed to extend a temporary solution to combat child sexual abuse material online, which will now be in place until 3 April 2026. The deal comes as existing arrangements, under which companies can voluntarily scan their services, are set to expire on 3 August — while plans for a longer-term fix have raised significant concerns over privacy and encryption. Today’s agreement will extend that system for another two years, a mid-way point between EU lawmakers who wanted a one-off extension to May 2025, and member states who favoured 2027. The interim ...
Euronews (English)
By Hera Rizwan Researchers from the Stanford Internet Observatory revealed in a study published earlier this week that a vast public dataset, commonly used to train popular AI image-generating models, contained over a thousand images of child sexual abuse material. The research uncovered over 3,200 images of suspected child sexual abuse within the extensive AI database LAION. This database, used for training prominent AI image generators like Stable Diffusion, contains explicit images and captions, scrapped from the internet. The watchdog organisation, situated at Stanford University, collabor...
BOOM Live
By Hera Rizwan In its latest report, the U.K.-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has flagged a flood of AI-generated images of child sexual abuse on the internet. The watchdog has urged the governments and technology providers to act quickly before this "nightmare" overwhelms law enforcement investigators with an expanding pool of potential victims. The report has highlighted that criminals are leveraging downloadable open-source generative AI models, capable of generating images, with highly alarming consequences. This technology is now being employed to generate new images featuring previ...
BOOM Live
Hope Solo, a former goalkeeper for the U.S. women’s national soccer team, was arrested after being found passed out behind the wheel of her car with her 2-year-old twins in a Walmart parking lot in North Carolina. Police in Winston-Salem arrested the 40-year-old Thursday on charges of driving while impaired, resisting a public officer, and misdemeanor child abuse. Due to the impending prosecution, the police will release no other information regarding the arrest, police said in a statement. Rich Nichols, an attorney for Solo, said in a statement: “On the advice of counsel, Hope can’t speak abo...
uInterview.com
On Thursday, one of the stars of the Netflix docuseries Cheer, Jeremiah Harris, was arrested and charged in Chicago for the alleged solicitation of two minors for sexually explicit photographs. The proceedings will be heard in a federal court and can lead to a maximum 30-year prison sentence.The six-part Emmy-award winning series followed the competitive lives of the Navarro College Bulldogs Cheer Team of Corsicana, Texas. Harris rose to fame after being publicly lauded for his proud performances and “matt talk,” a cheerleading term for the cheering of others’ performances, that quickly made h...
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