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Shocking new data shows that along with the 95 percent increase in child porn consumption, there’s also been a 200 percent spike in searches for videos showing children bleeding, choking, tortured or in pain.
We’ve known for a while that India has a serious child pornography problem. Even though the country has banned pornography entirely, it continues to be one of the biggest contributors and consumers of child abuse content. But latest data has revealed an even more disturbing trend, especially as the nation has been under a tight lockdown since March 23. According to the India Child Protection Fund (ICPF), there has been a steep increase in demand for searches like “child porn”, “sexy child” and “teen sex videos”, along with an increase in traffic on Pornhub from India by 95 percent between March 24 and 26, 2020, as compared to before the lockdown.
The ICPF was set up in January 2020 by Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s son Bhuvan Ribhu, to support NGOs with funding resources for curbing the exploitation of children. The organisation has flagged this “high demand” for searches for child porn as a potential threat to children who are stuck at home because of the lockdown. The spike in child porn consumption during the lockdown period—says Nivedita Ahuja, the chairperson of ICPF—is indicative of how “millions of paedophiles, child rapists and child pornography addicts have migrated online, making the Internet extremely unsafe for children.” She also said, “Without stringent action, this could result in a drastic rise in sexual crimes against children.”
Shocking new data shows that along with the 95 percent increase in child porn consumption, there’s also been a 200 percent spike in searches for videos showing children bleeding, choking, tortured or in pain.
We’ve known for a while that India has a serious child pornography problem. Even though the country has banned pornography entirely, it continues to be one of the biggest contributors and consumers of child abuse content. But latest data has revealed an even more disturbing trend, especially as the nation has been under a tight lockdown since March 23. According to the India Child Protection Fund (ICPF), there has been a steep increase in demand for searches like “child porn”, “sexy child” and “teen sex videos”, along with an increase in traffic on Pornhub from India by 95 percent between March 24 and 26, 2020, as compared to before the lockdown.
The ICPF was set up in January 2020 by Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s son Bhuvan Ribhu, to support NGOs with funding resources for curbing the exploitation of children. The organisation has flagged this “high demand” for searches for child porn as a potential threat to children who are stuck at home because of the lockdown. The spike in child porn consumption during the lockdown period—says Nivedita Ahuja, the chairperson of ICPF—is indicative of how “millions of paedophiles, child rapists and child pornography addicts have migrated online, making the Internet extremely unsafe for children.” She also said, “Without stringent action, this could result in a drastic rise in sexual crimes against children.”
