#child-exploitation

#child-exploitation

Shortly after Elon Musk purchased Twitter, in 2022, he claimed that "removing child exploitation is priority #1." It was certainly a noble goal-social-media sites had become havens for distributing abusive materials, including child pornography and revenge porn, and there was perhaps no major platform as openly hospitable to such content as Twitter. Unlike Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, which restricted nudity and pornographic videos, Twitter allowed users to post violent and "consensually produced adult content" to their feeds without consequence.

A 21-year-old Swedish man accused of being a key organizer of violence-as-a-service linked to the Foxtrot criminal network, which police say has recruited and exploited minors, has been arrested in Iraq. The suspect, whose name has not been released, is wanted on several charges including instigated murder, instigated attempted murder, and conspiracy to commit murder, according to the Swedish Police Authority.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok has been accused of generating non-consensual sexualized images of real people, including children. Over the past week, X has been flooded with manipulated photos that remove people's clothes, dress them in bikinis, or rearrange them into sexually suggestive positions. The nonconsensual images have left some women feeling violated. Meanwhile, their creation using Grok and their presence on X may land Musk's company in significant legal trouble in several countries around the world.

Deep cuts to foreign aid by United States President Donald Trump this year, coupled with reductions from other donor countries, have forced the closure of thousands of schools and youth centres in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, devastating critical child protection programmes. The consequences are dire: Girls forced into marriage, children as young as 10 pushed into hard labour, and some girls as young as 12 coerced into prostitution.

Prosecutors accuse the defendant of murder and five counts of attempted murder. He is alleged to have coerced vulnerable teenagers online into harming themselves; in one case, a 13-year-old is believed to have died by suicide. In total, prosecutors list 204 offences said to have been committed when the accused was a minor or young adult, involving more than 30 child and teenage victims.

Donald Trump is supposed to be the guy that's concerned about crime In every FBI field office and we just got this 25-45% of the agents that used to work on counterrorism, cyber-crime, counter-espionage, they've all been taken off those duties and assigned to immigration. HOLY COW: Sen. Mark Warner just revealed Trump's DOJ pulled up to 45% of FBI agents off counter-terrorism and CHILD RAPE AND EXPLOITATION cases to reassign them to immigration. Trump's priorities aren't America First. They're predators first.

Victims of child exploitation and grooming will have their child prostitution convictions disregarded after years of appalling injustice. New measures announced by the government this week will see victims who were convicted or cautioned as children for loitering and soliciting for prostitution offences automatically have these disregarded and pardoned. Announcing the scheme, the Home Office acknowledged that instead of being supported as victims, those affected were criminalised for actions that occurred under duress, fear and coercion.

Former Premier League referee David Coote has been charged for making an indecent video of a child, Nottinghamshire Police have confirmed. pic.twitter.com/Tq3B8y4evv Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) September 10, 2025 David Coote currently on bail Coote is currently on bail, according to the report, but has been charged for a Category A offence after video footage recovered by police officers. This incident took place back in February, while Coote was also sacked by the PGMOL from his role as a Premier League referee last year.

A Hanover man was arrested and arraigned Monday after allegedly taking "upskirt" photos of women inside two stores, police said. Aedan Ford, 44, was charged with two counts of photographing intimate parts of a child, two counts of photographing an unsuspecting nude person, and assault, the Hingham Police Department said in a Facebook post. Ford pleaded guilty to all charges, court documents show. Attorney information for Ford was not immediately available Monday night. Ford allegedly took upskirt photos of women inside of the Derby Street Whole Foods on Aug. 18, according to police.

According to US Department of Justice data, females accounted for only about 8 percent of arrests for sex offenses against minors, and the U.S. Sentencing Commission (2021) reports that 93 percent of offenders were men.

I am not some pawn in your political warfare. What you have done and continue to do is eating at me day after day as you help to perpetuate this story indefinitely.

Authorities arrested around 200 immigrants during immigration raids at two cannabis farms in California, with 10 children rescued from potential exploitation.

James Fantini, 56, pleaded guilty to secretly videotaping three 15-year-old girls getting undressed and showering at a Winchester home, resulting in serious charges.

Rachel Reeves emphasized that Keir Starmer's new inquiry on child sexual exploitation is a genuine step towards prioritizing victims, moving beyond past hesitations for broader investigation.

Andrew Gutierrez, a Santa Clara County paramedic, was arrested for allegedly collecting and sharing hundreds of child sexual abuse images after an extensive internet investigation.

Kennedy's alleged incident resulted in his wife needing stitches, raising serious concerns about domestic assault, while Aiello faces federal charges linked to child pornography.