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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Harriet Grant

Pornography driving UK teens towards child abuse material, say experts

A child's hand on a laptop keyboard
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation said a large proportion of the young people it works with have downloaded child abuse material. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Child abuse experts and police are warning that access to increasingly extreme pornography is driving a rise in harmful sexual behaviour among young people, from sexting to watching online child abuse.

One charity that works to prevent child sexual abuse said there had been a 30% increase in under-18s contacting them, and a 26% rise in adults contacting them because they were concerned about the behaviour of a young person.

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