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55% of UK child abuse content traced to US
David Batty
Monday March 22, 2026
More than half (55%) of the child abuse images on the internet reported in Britain last year originated from the United States, the UK internet industry regulator said today.
This was a 3% rise in the amount of child abuse material traced to the US from the previous year, according to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).
The IWF's annual report, published today, also highlighted the rapid growth in the amount of child abuse images traced to Russia, which rose from 5% in 1997 to 23% last year.
John Carr, the internet safety adviser at the children's charity NCH, said that the apparent failure of the US authorities to crack down on child abuse websites was undermining international efforts to combat online paedophilia.
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