We found over 300 million young people had experienced online sexual abuse and exploitation over the course of our meta-study

By Deborah Fry, Professor of International Child Protection Research and Director of Data at the Childlight Global Child Safety Institute , The University of Edinburgh

It takes a lot to shock Kelvin Lay. My friend and colleague was responsible for setting up Africa’s first dedicated child exploitation and human trafficking units, and for many years he was a senior investigating officer for the Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre at the UK’s National Crime Agency, specialising in extra territorial prosecutions on child exploitation across the globe.

But what happened when he recently volunteered for a demonstration of cutting-edge identification software left him speechless. Within seconds of being fed with an image of how Lay looks today,…

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