child exploitation

The child exploitation tag brings together reporting on online abuse networks, investigations, criminal prosecutions, and cases involving children and teenagers. Recent coverage includes Europol’s referral of thousands of URLs linked to “The Com,” an online network associated with extremist propaganda, cybercrime, coercion, self-harm content, and child exploitation. Other entries describe criminal cases involving sexual abuse of minors and the production or distribution of abusive images. This archive provides a focused view of how child exploitation appears in law-enforcement actions, court proceedings, and reports about harmful online communities.