‘Extremely worrying’ rise in underage sexting
from The Christian Institute:
The number of under-18s engaging in ‘sexting’ has soared in recent years, according to troubling new figures.
Cases involving children possessing or sending sexual images of themselves or others have more than doubled in the past three years. Police say that children as young as five have been investigated.
Data from police forces in England and Wales reveals that 6,328 incidents took place between 2016 and 2017 – a rate of 17 a day.
Illegal
Sexting is defined as “the exchange of sexual messages or self-generated sexual images or videos through mobile phones or the internet”.
It is illegal to create, possess, or distribute sexual images of children, even if the images are taken by the children themselves.
The NSPCC described the rise as “extremely worrying” and said it is vital that parents “talk to children about the dangers of sexting”.
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