UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph
By Theresa May, Home Secretary
10 Dec 2014
It is often the case that the most difficult issues are the hardest to confront. Yet confront them we must. Which is why today, in London, representatives from more than 50 countries have gathered with one particular aim: the elimination of online child sexual abuse.
Every day, in countries across the globe, children are subjected to this most appalling of crimes, a crime about which we don’t yet know the true scale and which we are still learning to deal with.
The impact of child sexual abuse – both online and offline – is devastating.
There are children out there who have suffered indescribable horrors. They grow into adults who carry the burden of abuse with them throughout their lives.
Advances in technology have brought us so much. Communicating across countries and time zones is now as simple as a click of the mouse, and information can be shared freely and easily.
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