LONDON - The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has revealed that incidence of child porn is getting worse with seven websites featuring child porn being reported to authorities every day. The charity said that child porn images shown over the Internet include those portraying rape, sadism and bestiality.
To create awareness that such sites are illegal and to publicize the IWF Awareness Day, a 'Hotline' has been launched where users can report such sites where child porn is shown. The Hotline is supported by leading lights in the industry including Tiscali, Yahoo and MSN.
"Our analysts witness the results of terrible sexual abuse being inflicted on very young children around the world and then circulated online," said IWF chief executive, Peter Robbins.
The IWF hopes to provide a notice and take down effect with the hotline. The reports will be forwarded to police as well as the concerned Internet Service Provider. The report issued by the charity said that over 1.5 million UK adults had been able to access child pornography this year. However the percentage of such sites run on UK servers had dropped to 1 percent from the 18 percent reported in 1997.
"With the help of the online industry, the 28 hotlines we work with around the world and our law enforcement colleagues, the public can help us to remove these websites and end the abuse that is perpetuated every time the images are viewed," Robbins said.
The report added that so far it had passed information about 2,092 child sexual abuse websites to concerned authorities this year.
Further details of the planned events on IWF Awareness Day can be found at http://www.iwf.org.uk/media/page.80.htm.
