India on Friday joins Interpol’s Child Sexual Exploitation database to become its 68th member. Now, will share the news and information with other members to draw attachments between abusers, victims, and crime.
On Friday ICSE’s related officers announced that India join hands in Interpol’s Child Sexual Exploitation database, where we will share our data with others to detect the culprit and crime. They use online, visual and audio content to link the crime, Victims, and culprit through pictures and videos. ICSE database is purposely created to save valuable time and resources and to build a healthy environment amongst the nations to fight against children’s sexual exploitation.
The France-based agency placed and Lyon city works through videos and image comparison software, where operatives can clinch the abusers by illuminating the place and time of the crime. To prevent themselves from recurrence of labor by saving the earlier data and sharing it with
other members to detect whether the criminal was identified in another country and the picture or image related to another nation. India noted more than 20 lakh cases of online child abuse cases from 2017 to 2020 and a major portion of the stats was about girls aged under 14 years.
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Now the crime investigation agency of India CBI (Central Bureau Of Investigation) will also have access to the maintained data about crime, convicts, etc. By detecting the data from photos, videos and criminals can be identified easily and retrieve clues about child sexual abuse. The operation has targeted over 50 social media groups having more than 50,000 alleged abusers sharing child sexual abuse material with the accused based in various countries like the United States of America, Canada, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Ghana, and Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, among others. Latest trends show that the younger the victim, the more severe the abuse, 84% of images contained explicit sexual activity, 65% of unidentified victims are girls, server abuse images were likely to feature boys.
