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The UK is one of the three biggest markets for live streamed child sexual abuse in the world

ByJennifer McKiernanPolitical reporter
  • Published54 minutes ago

Former safeguarding minister Jess Phillips has joined calls from campaigners for the government to back new technology that blocks the live-streaming of child sexual abuse.

The UK National Crime Agency has flagged the UK as the third biggest market in the world, external for live-streamed abuse, where children are sexually abused live on camera to order.