Child Sexual Abuse Material - An Unidentified Issue In The Digital Age
- IJLLR Journal
- Dec 31, 2025
- 1 min read
Mr. Swaminathan P.S & Ms. Vaani. P
ABSTRACT
The reports published by The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health and University of Edinburgh and China Agricultural University, shows that children experienced online sexual abuse worldwide. The Internet Watch Foundation showed that there was a significant increase of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report 2022, provides that cyber crime against the child have increased compared to previous years. Further, the report based on the Cyber Crime Prevention against women and children (CCPWC) scheme, highlighted that it was recorded that 1.94 lakh child pornography incidents in the month of April 2024 has been recorded. The above reports convey that there is an imminent risk that child is digitally abused and exploited by the AI tools and they fall into victim label unknowingly. Though, there was a legal frame work to protect the child from abuse but it is failed to address issues regarding with Digital Era.
This article aims to discuss the existing legal framework to combat the digital child sexual abuse with respect to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and to find out various strategies to overcome the digital child sexual abuse with respect to child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
KEYWORDS Definition for Child, child sexual abuse, child sexual abuse material.
