Significant Trends 2006
- 31,776 reports processed by IWF ‘Hotline’ (34% increase on 2005)
- Less than 1% of all child abuse content hosted in the UK since 2003
Victim details
- 80% victims in all the URLs (individual images) confirmed to be abusive are female
- 91% of victims in URLs confirmed to be abusive appear to be under 12 years old
Severity
- Child abuse images (commercial and non-commercial) of levels 4 and 5 (the most severe) increased from 7% in 2003 to 29% in 2006, of all confirmed abusive URLs
- 57% of commercial child abuse domains known to IWF contain image level 4 and 5 in 2006
Longevity
- 94 commercial websites reported by IWF to relevant authorities in 2006 have been actively selling child abuse images since 2005, 33 live since 2004, 32 live since before 2004
Images
- 10,656 individual URLs containing child abuse content (74% increase on 2005)
- 3,077 domains account for all these URLs
- 1,667 of these domains were commercial websites
- 10.5% of all URLs with child abuse content in 2006 were on photo album websites
Regions – commercial child abuse domains:
- 62% of commercial child abuse domains hosted in US
- 28% commercial child abuse domains hosted in Russia
Police intelligence
- In 2006 IWF provided 11 evidential statements supporting UK police enquiries
- Gave evidence given at 5 UK trials
- 42 reports from IWF still under investigation
Child abuse domains and URLs 2004-2006
All child abuse domains by region 2006
Abuse image level for URLs 2004-2006
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