Скачать или смотреть Nearly 19,000 victims of so-called revenge porn in four years investigation finds

Children younger than 10 are among the nearly 19,000 victims who have reported cases of image-based sexual abuse - so-called ‘revenge porn’ - to police in the last four years, Channel 4 News can reveal.

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This programme has received Freedom of Information responses from 34 of the UK’s 45 police forces which shows the scale of this devastating crime.

18,700 cases of image-based sexual abuse were reported to police forces in England and Wales between January 2018 and August 2021, equivalent to 14 reports every day.

Our analysis shows that almost 80% of reported victims were women and girls, while the majority (62%) of suspects were male. Nearly 2,000 victims were under the age of 18 at the time the reported incident occurred, and 19 were 10 years old or younger.

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