1.8 Million British Men May Have Committed Online Sex Offences Against Children, Says Research

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh estimate 7 percent of British men—around 1.8 million individuals—have taken part in some form of online child sexual exploitation and abuse. The university’s Childlight initiative, which aims to understand the prevalence of child abuse, has published a new report, Into the Light, which was based on surveys with men in Britain, Australia, and the United States. They found 7 percent of British men in their sample admitted having deliberately viewed images of underage children, flirted or had a sexual conversation with a person below the age of 18 online, engaged in a sexually explicit webcam interaction with a child, or paid for images or videos of someone under 18....