Over 400 Scottish children suffer online sexual abuse every day
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dailyrecord.co.ukAlarming news statistics have revealed around 150,000 children in Scotland have been subjected to at least one form of online sexual abuse in the past year - enough to fill Hampden stadium almost three times over.
This amounts to average of over 400 Scottish cases every day which is more than 70 times higher than the number of cyber-enabled sexual crimes against children officially recorded by police.
The new estimates come from the Childlight Global Child Safety Institute, which is headquartered at the University of Edinburgh, and established by the Human Dignity Foundation.
Childlight says police only see "the tip of the iceberg" and are calling on more focus on prevention from policy makers to "end the pandemic".
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