A growing number of girls as young as 11 are being tricked or coerced into sharing selfies of themselves being sexually abused online, a charity that removes such content said on Wednesday. The UK-based Internet Watch Foundation IWF said it responded to more than 37, reports of online child sex abuse recorded by the victims themselves in the first 11 months of - most of whom were girls estimated to be aged 11 to In a fast-growing form of an online sex crime, abusers pressurize girls to record themselves naked or performing sex acts on their computer webcams, which abusers may then re-share, said the IWF.

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TWO beauty contestants have been dramatically detained at a Moscow airport for allegedly seeking to sell an year-old female student as a sex slave, police have said. But in reality the teen would have been stripped of her passport, beaten, kidnapped, and forced to work as a prostitute in a brothel, say Russian police sources. The detained women are beauty contestants Ksenia Starikova, 22, a mother-of-one and the alleged mastermind of the scheme, and Tatiana Petrova, A video shows them hiding their faces after they were detained by police at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow. They were held as Ms Petrova prepared to board a plane bound for Turkey with the victim, it was alleged. Police staged a sting operation posing as buyers, and the women were arrested after Ms Starikova received the money at the airport, it is alleged. Ms Starikova, who is a Mrs Russia finalist, is divorced from her military husband and is a single mother with a month-old daughter. Ms Petrova says she is a Russian-Bulgarian model and was a finalist in the Top Russia International beauty contest. Both women have been charged with human trafficking and face up to six years in jail if convicted.
LONDON Thomson Reuters Foundation - A growing number of girls as young as 11 are being tricked or coerced into sharing selfies of themselves being sexually abused online, a charity that removes such content said on Wednesday. The UK-based Internet Watch Foundation IWF said it responded to more than 37, reports of online child sex abuse recorded by the victims themselves in the first 11 months of - most of whom were girls estimated to be aged 11 to In a fast-growing form of online sex crime, abusers pressurise girls to record themselves naked or performing sex acts on their computer webcams, which abusers may then re-share, said the IWF. The new figures were released a month after a survey of police officers based in the United States and dozens of other countries found that the majority of live-streamed child sex abuse via webcam was generated by the victims themselves. Discover Thomson Reuters.
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