Abuse images getting worse.CHILD sex abuse images on the web are getting more and more shocking, a watchdog revealed today. The Internet Watch Foundation The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is a UK organisation that aims to find, remove and facilitate the blocking of access to illegal content on the internet. It works in partnership with the police, Government, major Internet service providers and the wider online industry and is said the proportion of websites posting horrific hor·rif·ic adj. Causing horror; terrifying. [Latin horrificus : horr  re, to tremble + -ficus, -fic. images of child torture or rape is up 11 per cent.
Investigators traced 1,536 websites around the world publishing child abuse images last year. Nearly 900 allowed users access to images of the most serious forms of abuse. A quarter of the child victims were under seven years old. The UK hosts fewer than 15 (1 per cent) of such sites, down from 18 per cent in 1997, the foundation's annual report revealed. The IWF IWF Interworking Function IWF Internet Watch Foundation IWF Independent Women's Forum IWF International Weightlifting Federation IWF Internationaler Währungsfond (German; IMF) IWF Independent Wrestling Federation is an industry body which alerts internet companies and police if they find websites hosting illegal images. Chief executive Peter Robbins said: "These websites, although reducing in number, represent an extremely serious problem." |
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