Moreover, intermediaries like social networks are not removing such content fast enough. 'The IT Act bans the viewing, creation and distribution of child pornography in the country, but it still happens. 'Innovation and the internet come with their own set of challenges, some of which are alarming as in child pornography,' says Dr Gulshan Rai, chief information security officer in the prime minister's office.

Delhi tops the list for the maximum uploads of child porn, followed by Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. NCMEC estimates that Indian users have uploaded 25,000 images or videos in just the past five months. According to the US-based National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), India now accounts for the maximum number of online child sexual abuse imagery in the world, followed by Thailand. Imagine a childhood spent grappling with the notion of betrayal and abuse,' says Krishnan.Ĭyber grooming of the very young, like Praniti, is the newest threat in a booming online child pornography market that has reached alarming proportions in India (see Perverse Patterns). 'The child doesn't know he or she is being exploited. It destroys the construct of victimhood in a child's mind. The biggest threat in children being 'groomed' through the internet is the complete transfer of trust from the prey to the predator. 'She was adamant this person was her friend, that she had done nothing wrong,' says Krishnan. Nothing prepared them for the discovery that the person was a stranger and that sexually explicit photographs of their daughter were all over the internet. She would chat with a close friend online, someone her parents assumed was from school.

She attended school, was polite and never begged for chips or soda. Praniti (name changed) was no problem child. Instead, she found a cherubic 12-year-old girl, bursting with enthusiasm. When Sunitha Krishnan, co-founder of Prajwala, went to meet a child featured in it, she expected a scared, silent, suspicious person. Last October, Prajwala, a Hyderabad-based NGO that rescues and rehabilitates sex trafficking survivors, came across some disturbing footage of child pornography on the internet.

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