The child pornography reporting center sees an increase in sexual child abuse consisting or self-made images. These are images that are shared online. In One in Three Reported Images, It Concerns A Self-Made Photo.
Offlimits, under which the child pornography reporting center falls, speaks of a worrying trend in its annual report. In Total, about 74,000 internet addresses were found found last year on which ate one self-made abuse photo was present. In 96.5 percent of the cases, these were Girls. The Majority of the Images Show Victims Who Are Younger Than Twelve Years Old.
The Reporting Center has not leg mapping the figures for very long. “Our Analysts Noticed Duration 2023 That this was really a problem,” Says Madeleine van der Bruggen, Team Leader of the Child Pornography Reporting Center, To Nu.nl.
“This was also seen by the police and other reporting centers. Since then, we have leg keeping track of the number and we see an increase. That a thirt of the punishable images online Were self-made was known.
Little is Known About this Young Target Group, Says van der Bruggen. For example, it is not always clear where the images come from, how they were made made, and how they ended up online. Accordance to van der Bruggen, Most Research Has Been Done on Teenagers. Offlimits and the sexual violence center believe that urgent scientific research into cases with very young children is needed.
More Addresses Shared in FeWer Reports
In 2024, The Child Pornography Reporting Center Processed and Analyzed over 127,000 reports of online abuse. That is about half the number of reports Received the year before. But these reports included more internet addresses than in 2023.
It is Difficult to Draw Conclusions from These Numbers. “Because we are not allowed to proactively search for images Ourselves, we are Dependent on incoming reports,” Says van der Bruggen. The Number of Reports May Decrease, For Example, Because Parties Hosting Abuse Images Move Abroad. “In the first Quarter of 2025, we already see a huge increase again. This is due to large forums with many images that are reported to us.”
Number of AI Images Increases
Offlimits also says they are increasingly dealing with punishable material made with the help of artificial intelligence. It is Increasingly Difficult for Analysts to Distinguish Real From Fake, As the Technology is Constantly Improving. “Last year, we had 1,472 reports of which we can say with certainty that they were made with ai,” Says van der Bruggen.
AI Images Make It Difficult for Offlimits. If very realistic-looking fake images are forwarded to the police, investigation services in some cases go looking for non-existent Victims. They then less time to help real victims, offlimits warns. “We do have groups that practice will increase in the future,” Says van der Bruggen.