Children under 10 are being increasingly targeted by pedophiles, data indicates

Children under 10 are increasingly being targeted by paedophiles online, figures suggest.

The Internet Watch Foundation received 392,660 reports of possible abuse images on websites last year, of which, 70% was found to contain such material.

Of those, 39% involved images of children under 10, up from 25% in 2022.

Some 92% featured self-generated content, where children are made to, or tricked into, taking obscene self images.