Digital Predators

By Will Reid and Evan Williams

 

 

 

CHILD ABUSE WARNING BOARD

SBS ADVISES THAT THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM HAS REFERNCES TO CHILD ABUSE

1.       

Rhiannon silhouette walking

Drone day 1 @ 00:03:42:20







See Rhiannon

SFX – Dial up internet

 

Rhiannon (00:48:36):

Sometimes you catch yourself walking down the street, thinking that person could have seen that image of me. 

 

(00:56:30)  you know, the, the imagery is, is just as bad as the, the actual physical sexual assault.

2.       

Day 3 drone @ 00:24:14:17

 

Drone sequence

 

During COVID lockdowns police around the world have reported a massive rise in people viewing and sharing child sexual abuse images on line.

 

In the UK police estimate there are 300,000 men regularly watching and sharing these images

 

3.       

Master Iv

SIMON - 00:35:28:07

The problem is, is huge. The notion that my child is safe. My child is at home. My child's up in that bedroom. Live streaming, cameras on phones has now taken away the front door completely

 

4.       

Shots of computer screen with legal porn

Tonight….We'll hear from victims and perpetrators on a difficult subject.

 

ROB

I've had to take on board that I facilitated the ongoing abuse because of the looking and the sharing of these images.

5.       

Day 3 Drone @ 01:14 

 

Evan PTC 

 

Big drone shot looking over London slowly coming in to see Evan on a rooftop

 

 

 

Cut to Evan on rooftop

 

 

 

Day 3 @ 00:36:10:08 

PTC: In the 90s there were less than 10,000 images of child sexual abuse online - today that number has soared to more than 47 million unique images

 

 Day 3 @ 06:01

PTC: This is the story of some of the most vile images on the internet and the small group of people who are trying to stop it.

 

6.       

TITLE: DIGITAL PREDATORS

SFX : The Sound of dial-up Internet @ 0:08 ( LOW VOLUME)

7.       

FILE: Prolific hurtcore paedophile jailed for 32 years

This is Matthew Falder, one of the most prolific online child abusers the UK has ever seen.

 

8.       

Matthew being arrested

 

 

 

 

 

 

OFFICER: The offences I’ve arrested you on suspicion of being involved in, are, black mail, causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, possessing indecent images of children.

 

FALDER: Sounds like the rap sheet from hell.

9.       

Matthew putting a hidden camera in bathroom - Prolific hurtcore paedophile jailed for 32 years.mp4

 

A seemingly normal, intelligent and tech savvy individual….

 

Falder is the epitome of everything UK law enforcement is fighting in the war against  online child abuse.

10.   

Matthew in an interview room with police

0:55

OFFICER: Have you sent pictures of your blackmail victims to the parents?

 

Falder: No comment.

11.   

 Use O/lay from police video - Prolific hurtcore paedophile jailed for 32 years.mp4

 

The pursuit of people like Falder is well funded and relentless.

 

And it’s made the UK a world leader in policing this area of crime.

12.   

SCOLT

  

13.   

NORWICH DRONE

 

 

Wymondam drone 00:06:18:00

In Norwich  - the fight against child sexual abuse material - otherwise known as CSAM  - is led by a special team at the Norfolk constabulary

 

14.   

UK WYMONDHAM 


UK WYMONDHAM



Dave in Office getting ready






Camera follow Dave to printer

Detective Inspector Dave McCormack is the unit’s senior officer.

 

Dave (14:06):

We're in the safeguarding children online team, which we nicknamed SCOLT and there are sole remit in here is to deal with online base sexual crime and to safeguard children. 

 we'll deal with everything from this, the more serious offensive, uh, child rape all the way through to downloading or possessing indecent images of children.

 

15.   

Dave walks over to Jenna

Today he is briefing police investigator Jenna Saunders on a new case

16.   

UK WYMONDHAM

 

Dave and Jenna chatting at desk

 

[23:46:36] Dave: right Jenna

 

[23:55:40] He is a suspect that we are very well aware of, we have been to that address 3 times already. We already know he's got a female partner, we already know there are at least 3 children  at that address,  so its fairly high risk for us 

 

[23:40:51] He is clearly escalating his sexual behaviour and it’s something we need to get hold of him for.

17.   

Footage of recent raid

 

SCOLT team @ offices

HIS TEAM IS DEALING WITH A GROWING NUMBER OF REPORTS

 

AND PRIORITY IS GIVEN TO CASES WHERE THEY BELIEVE CHILDREN ARE AT RISK IN THEIR OWN HOMES

18.   

Evan and Dave chat in office

Dave (05:58):

You know, people don't seem to be getting the message that uploading and downloading indecent images of children is illegal. It's a, it's a huge growing area of business for us. Certainly within the last three years, we've just seen more referrals and investigation skyrocket and that's the only word created to describe it really.

19.   

UK NORWICH F5 @ 00:31:31:17

Joel re-creation

Sequence of perp






 UK WYMONDHAM F5 @ Dave (06:52):

Your average offender lives at home, has his children at home and his family and have that normal life of go off to work, you know, but then underneath there'll be a secret lifestyle that nobody else knows about and feel as if they aren't going to get caught and live out their front  their fantasies online and all the time they're fuelling that sexual behaviour.

 

Evan (08:31):

does this lead to physical abuse? 

 

Dave (08:40):

I think there's a real strong possibility that it does lead to actual physical sexual abuse of children. I think they, you know, like any addiction, you'll get to a certain point where you can't get any more and when I need to manipulate others to get what you want. Um, and that's where your grooming offenses come in. Once you make down the grooming, you're arranging to meet offenses happen. Once you arrange to meet, you're pretty much arranged to meet, to commit a physical sexual abuse offense

20.   

CHIEF CONSTABLE SIMON BAILEY

 

21.   

  UK NORWICH F5

Simon (03:59):

The problem is, is huge, and I think it's one of the greatest threats to society and one of the greatest policing challenges, certainly that we are facing.

22.   

Uk Norwich @ 00:47:45:21

 

Simon on Phone in courtyard

 

Chief Constable Simon Bailey is Norfolk’s most senior police officer

 

He also spearheads the UK’s national policing response to online child abuse. 

23.   

Evan and Simon in Crypt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simon (10:55)

The latest statistics show that we are resting over 700 men every month, every month, safeguarding 900 children every month but the bottom line is the numbers of referrals and the number of jobs continue to grow and grow and grow and grow

 

EVAN (34:27):

What do parents in Europe and Britain and Australia need to understand about the nature of this sort of material?

 

SIMON - 00:35:28:07

The notion that my child is safe. My child is at home. My child's up in that bedroom. We need to debunk that myth. And we need to understand that what live streaming video cameras, cameras on computers, cameras on phones, live chat rooms, live broadcasting capability has now just taken away the front door completely and has afforded people access to every child anywhere in the world, unless the appropriate safeguards and security mechanisms are in place.

 

24.   

RHIANNON – SURVIVOR

 

25.   

UK DAY 1

 

Drone shot

 

When Rhiannon was 13 she started an online chat with a stranger.

 

 SFX: MS messenger “ping”

 

Years later she still prefers to remain anonymous.

 

26.   

  REENACTMENTS

 

Rhiannon on computer

 

 

Rhiannon (00:17:33):

They said that they were a young adult female. In their early twenties. the first thing that you used to do was ask ASL. So age sex location. And then we followed it up with, um, a picture to sort of prove who we were she saw that I was a 13 year old girl and she sent me a picture of a young woman that was supposedly her.

 

27.   

REENACTMENTS

Rhiannon on computer

 

REENACTMENTS @ 00:09:54:21

Rhiannon takes picture of herself

Rhiannon (00:20:06):

So she said that she was a model. And after I'd sent the initial picture of just my face, she said that I was really pretty. and that I could be a model like her. eventually she asked for, um, like a full length photo, like to see what body type I had. And, and then it progressed to,

28.   

REENACTMENTS


REENACTMENTS @ 00:13:04:14

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Door closes

Rhiannon (00:21:45):

She asked for a topless photo

 

 

Rhiannon (00:26:56):

I didn't want to do it at first, but she spent ages telling me that it was, it was fine. It was okay. It was no big deal. Everybody does it. Um, and she made me feel like it was okay to do it. so eventually I did send her a topless photo and then everything changed.

29.   

RHIANNON MASTER IV



Evan and Rhiannon








Rhiannon (00:28:16):

She asked me to, um, turn the webcam on. So they, it was, um, sort of a video rather than images and asked me to do certain things. And, um, she said that if I didn't do that, then she was going to make sure that all my friends and families saw the topless photo of me. And which was, that was really terrifying  

So I didn't really feel like I had much of a choice, but to do what she was then telling me to do.

30.   

RHIANNON WALKS TO WINDOW

  UK DAY 1 @ 01:30:00:03

The woman asked Rhiannon to do more and more explicit sexual acts.

 

She then asked to meet up.

31.   

 UK DAY 1

 

Sequence: Looking out window / hands/ eyes/ rain on window

Rhiannon (00:31:21):

I initially said no to her. I said that I wasn't going to give my address out. Um, and then she threatened

Me that she was just gonna release all the material that she had.

 

Rhiannon (00:35:44):

So eventually I did give in and tell her my address, cause I didn't know what else to do.

 

But the person threatening Rhiannon was not a woman, and not a model – it was all a lie

 

(00:39:30 I was too terrified to do or say anything at that point. Um, and he, he sexually assaulted me at home and he took pictures of everything. ( HOLD ON THIS )

 

32.   

IWF ANALYST – Paul

 

33.   

 Drone shot over “average” town

 

VO: But there are some who look for explicit material of children being sexually abused online on purpose…. As a job

They work from an unassuming office tucked away in a quiet business park.

What you are about to hear from one them is disturbing.

 

UK DAY 2 DRONE @00:22:32:19 

 

Countryside, rows of houses, roads, IWF

 

 

Cover this entire grab with drone shots

 

 


End on drone pulling into IWF

UK DAY 2 DRONE@ 00:06:24:10

 

Paul (01:55):

On a daily basis, we pretty much see all levels of, of child sexual abuse. So, you know, from a, from a, a child 13 year old, just sitting in their bedroom, showing themselves to a camera, sometimes they might be masturbating, there may be penetration there, right up to, you know, babies being raped and tortured. We pretty much see everything that you could possibly imagine and a lot that you probably can't.

 

34.   

Sequence of Paul walking into IWF

UK DAY 2 @ 01:20:29:19

Paul is an analyst with the Internet Watch Foundation which has the sole aim of taking down child sexual abuse material

35.   

 

Sequence of Paul walking into IWF

 

Paul (07:40):

So if we identify it as child abuse, we'll create a report in our system just to capture all the that report will then go to the country that hosts that material. They'll then speak to their law enforcement, uh, and look to get the content removed

36.   

 

Each day IWF analysts receive hundreds of reports from the public about inappropriate websites and Images.

37.   

 

Paul (15:19):

We have seen, uh, uh, quite a large increase in self-generated, uh, content. Um, uh, I I'm I'm, I suppose we put it down to the fact that everyone's getting mobile phones these days and, and mobile devices. Children of a lot younger age, uh, being able to put themselves on the internet far younger, um, and share those images.

38.   

GFX 1

 

TEXT:

Almost half child abuse material

was user generated

 

 

 

TEXT:

81% was girls between 11 and 13

 

 

 

 

In 2020, almost half the content reported to IWF was user generated

 

 

majority of it showing young girls aged 11 to 13 years old

 

 

 

39.   

Re-enactment with “digital predator”

Meaning online predators are regularly coercing, blackmailing and tricking children into uploading explicit material.

 

40.   

Re-enactment with “digital predator”

 

Typing on phone

 

 

 

 

 

Paul (28:18):

There's certain sites where these people will find children online that are live streaming themselves. Uh, and once they find them they'll then go into chat rooms on the dark web or wherever, and then share this stream URL. And they'll say, go to this site there's a child there now, and then they all get on there. And then they make, you know, try and coax the child into doing more and more things that they want them to do. Um, and it, yeah, it is terrifying. Cause sometimes you hear the parents in the room next door chatting them for dinner

 

41.   

GFX 2

 

TEXT: In 2020 IWF removed 132,000 child abuse webpages

 

 

 

 

Pull the plug effect goes to black.

 

 

In 2020 the IWF removed 153,000 webpages of child sexual abuse. That equates to millions of images going offline.

 

 

SFX – pull the plug

42.   

GFX 3 

 

 

TEXT:

35% increase abuse reports during COVID-19

 

 

TEXT:

IWF Blocked 8.8 million attempts to access child abuse imagery

 

 

But with more people at home since the global pandemic

 

there’s been a 35% increase in public reports

 

 

 

And during the UK’s first lockdown the IWF Blocked 8.8 million attempts to access child abuse imagery

43.   

ROB THE OFFENDER

 

44.   

 UK EPSOM F5 CARD 2 @ 00:42:01:08

 

Evan TT walking through London on dusk

UPSOT: traffic in central London

 

VO: I want to understand what drives someone to access this kind material.

45.   

00:53:53:19

Ev walking into a phone box

Under the condition of full anonymity - I’ve arranged to speak with 32 year old – who we’ll call Rob.

 

He was charged with possession and distribution of child abuse material and is now on the sex offenders register.

46.   

Evan in phone box

00:06:02:00 EVAN: I’m trying to understand, how did you begin watching child sexual abuse online

 

01:02:35: I accessed adult pornography from probably the age of 10 or 11 jjj

 

ROB ( 01:11:10)

So by the time I'm 18, 19, and I'm having conversations with people on chat rooms, and I'm already accessing quite hardcore extreme but legal pornography

 

ROB (00:09:48):

that led me to

 

ROB (01:15:10):

to conversations about young people and then led to looking at images of young people.

 

47.   

 

Evan in phone box

 

[00:59:21] EVAN: When you were watching it, did you ever feel this child have been abused to create this video? Did you ever feel responsible that you were creating the market for this?

00:26:36):

when it comes to internet pornography, there is a detachment and you don't believe it is reality.

 

32:10

I have had to come to an understanding that, you know, these, that any image or any video is incredibly real, it is, I t is an example of abhorrent abuse that has taken place….. I've had to take on board that I facilitated the ongoing abuse because of the looking and the sharing of these images.

 

48.   

Evan in phone box

[01:04:51] Evan: how much of this material is out there? How easy is it to access?

 

ROB (01:31:28):

like unbelievably, rife. I don't think we, as a society wants to realize how much material is out there.

49.   

Evan in phone box

Rob was eventually arrested with hundreds of illegal images in his possession.

50.   

Evan in phone box

 

ROB (00:55:28):

 I lost a huge number of friends, I lost a huge number of opportunities.

 

ROB (00:57:29):

This is the most socially taboo crime that exists. I can understand why people view this crime as evil.

 

51.   

 

LONDON GV’s

 

 

 

---SPACE---

 

 VO: One way to prevent these these crimes, is helping people to stop viewing CSAM.

 

It’s a strategy actively pursued in the UK.

 

 

 

 

52.   

DONALD FINDLATER

 

53.   

 UK EPSOM F5 CARD 1 @ 00:15:14:11

 

Boring, brown, brick, building

 

 

 

 

 

UK EPSOM CARD 2

Counsellor on phone 

 

Taking notes

 

 

SFX: phone ringing @ 00:19:05:19

 

23:59:51:21 – Stop it now – can I help?

 

Stop It Now is a free hotline and counselling service for those worried about their sexual thoughts or behaviours towards children.

 

00:00:53:17 – What bought you to calling us today?

 

A surprising amount of enquiries are from concerned partners or family members.

 

00:06:53:23 – what we find is that a lot of people that look at images on lone, won’t have necessarily harmed a child.

 

54.   

Donald chatting

Upsot: Donald talking

 

This call centre receives between 50 - 60 calls every day

 

But during the pandemic that call load has increased by almost 50%.

 

55.   

Donald and Evan walking in park

UPSOT: waking in park

 

Donald Findlater is the Director of Stop it now and one of the UK’s leading experts on Child Abuse prevention. 

56.   

 

Evan 09.44

I’ve always thought that people accessing child sexual abuse material online were part of that percentage of the population that you could call paedophiles.

57.   

See Donald here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Re-enactment with Digital Predator

 

Donald (10:08):

They are mostly a little or a lot different from what you're imagining. Um, the, the, the estimates across the globe are about 1% of the adult male population are essentially paedophilic in their sexual interest. That doesn't mean they're all acting on that interest, but what are we seeing online is significantly different.

 

Donald (33:29):

I would say that most of the people that we've worked with, um, have journeyed from adult pornography consumption to looking at teen teenage images, to looking at the, at the next stage, down to the next stage down. So they've gone down this rabbit hole of interest and, and, and some of them realize that they're shocked that they've done that and they will come out and they will not return. And they'll be mortified by what they've seen, but some of them unfortunately will get fascinated by that.

58.   

 

And for a large number, online viewing can lead to a desire for actual physical abuse.

59.   

 

Donald (17:50):

25% of the people we're now that are contacting us now about online offending are talking about engaging with children directly. So they're taking that next step and therefore we have to help them to not take that step

60.   

  UK EPSOM F5 CARD 1

Window EXT

00:38:52:05

 

hands on keyboard

00:39:43:09

 

Scrolling through stop it now website

00:47:07:11

Research estimates that for most convicted abusers, there is a 10-year delay between first fantasising about children and actually abusing them

 

Despite this window, there are no early intervention services in Australia. 

 

 

61.   

SCOLT + Simon 

 

62.   

Wymondham drone 00:17:58:09

Back at the Norfolk online child protection unit, officers have just made an arrest.

63.   

UK WYMONDHAM 

 

Live briefing – with de identified officers

 

Actuality of briefing

48:45

FEMALE OFFICER:

Today we executed a warrant, um, suspect is upstairs in his bedroom. Um, Sharee you arrested him for on suspicion of distribution of indecent images. 

 

(00:50:19):

 FEMALE OFFICER:

He doesn't have access to any children and he doesn't have any children by himself. He doesn't babysit anyone. So we don't have any safeguarding concerns for any children

 

64.   

Evan chatting to female cop in office

Leader 2 (01:02:09):

He has been, uploading, indecent images and videos, to the internet, via what we call like cloud storage services, things like Dropbox and mega, like iCloud, they're, all storage accounts. 

65.   

Shots of Drop box website

 

 

 

GFX – to show CSAM

Because these are foreign tech companies, UK police can’t force them to hand over the files.

 

When it comes to websites and social media platforms, many companies say it’s too much data for them to know that CSAM is  even there.

 

66.   

Simon and Evan walking in hallway

 

   UK NORWICH F5

 

Chief Constable Simon Bailey doesn’t buy that. He believes they need to build better systems to identify online abuse.

 

Upsot: 00:43:25:06 you shouldn’t be able to host a site, that hosts that material and say, there’s nothing we can do about it

 

Simon: You have a responsibility to police what’s being facilitated. That cannot be the responsibility of law enforcement staff.

 

He’s been instrumental in helping create proposed new laws to make the UK one of the safest countries online 

 

67.   

Multi cam interview








Tech company overlay

 

 

 





Simon (15:42):

Companies need to understand more so than ever, ever before that they have a social and a moral responsibility to protect children and to prevent the abuse of children. And the bottom line is that they are not doing enough.

 

Simon (25:18):

The companies that we are talking about have become embedded into our lives to the point we're actually, we're almost prepared just to turn a blind eye turned around and say, well, that cop who talks about these numbers, well, that just can't be right now. He's just exaggerating. He's getting all emotional and emotive around it. Well, now I'm not, I'm talking about cold, hard facts. And I'm talking about what I am seeing. And my colleagues are having to see and view. I'm talking about officers that are viewing the rape and abuse of a child, and then a week later going into somebody's house and seeing that child and seeing the room where they saw the week before being raped. Now that's tough and it's happening. And we all need to reflect on the permissive nature of what we are by supporting these companies are, I think, are allowed to take place

68.   

 

Evan (29:26):

So no matter how tough the laws might become in the UK, does anything change until there's a global response?

 

Simon (29:39):

I would like to think that what would happen is if we get it right here, then other countries around the world that will be equally as horrified as we are. That will take the view. Well, if they can do it, the UK, then we can do it too. And I would like to think that would be a domino effect.

 

Simon (30:16):

I think making sure regulator has the, has the power, has the teeth has the compellable powers that will say to companies, right? We are now going to hit you with a huge, fine, or some form of punishment. We're actually sit up and take notice because the voluntary code of practice a voluntary code of practice simply has not worked. It's failed.

 

69.   

Tech overlay

So forcing tech companies to take down or close down this material under threat of criminal sanction is the next step in the global fight against child sexual abuse on line.

 

70.   

SIMON BAILEY

10:50 you make it harder for people to consume it and you make the deterrence along the way that great, then naturally you will then start to see a reduction in it..

71.   

 

 

 

 

Netherlands drone

 

 

 

Dutch parliament

The UK hosts less than 1% of the worlds child abuse material.

 

According to the IWF  - the Netherlands hosts a staggering 71% making it Europe’s biggest hoster.

 

And now, pressure is mounting on the Dutch Government, to follow the UKs lead to pull their internet industry into line.

 

72.   

ARDA – Netherlands

 

73.   

Arda Master IV

Arda Gerkans is a Dutch senator and head of the country’s peak CSAM reporting body.

 

UPSOT: Evan Can you hear me?

 

74.   

Arda

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(00:56:1ll0):

EVAN: the IWF says that, 71% of the CSAM material they found in 2019 was on Dutch servers. 

 

ARDA : Yeah. Many people think that that's 71% of all CSAM material is found on Dutch servers. So that's not true. It's what they found a 16.1 million reports have been done last year to the United States. We've had 275,000 reports, including the ones from IWF. So you can see the vast majority is in United States. Having said that we're coming in second. So we still have a big problem. I don't want to deny that. 

75.   

Drone shot of the Amsterdam

 

Fast cut establishing shots of NL








Super fast connection has made The Netherlands Europe’s internet gateway to the world. 

 

But that means along with business, all kinds of online criminality gets funnelled through here too.

 

And that includes a large number of websites hosting child sexual abuse material.

 

76.   

 

ARDA Master IV

Evan: why are they not stopping it? 

 

ARDA (00:24:37): 

Well, they are, they're trying, but it's very hard .we do not hold internet service providers responsible for what's on their networks because you have millions and millions of websites. So you cannot know. But once you are notified and from that point on you are responsible and you should act upon it.

 

ARDA (00:25:46): 

And so far so good. I think, uh, about 90% of the hotlines of internet service providers, they act, and they even act within 24 hours or 48 hours, they take it down very swiftly.

 

77.   

 

GFX 4

 

Text: 99% of Child Sexual  Abuse Material

 

Logos: Nforce, IP Volume, leaseweb, KnownSRV

 

TEXT: NForce Logo + 90% 174,652 child abuse reports

A recent report by the Dutch 

Government shows 99% of the child abuse imagery hosted in the country, is spread between just 4 companies.

 

 

 

 

It says, almost all of that is hosted by just one company - Nforce - which received over 174,000 reports of CSAM from monitoring bodies in the first half of 2020..

78.   

GFX 5

 

TEXT: Take Down Time

TEXT: Nforce took 11 days

 

TEXT: IP Volume 21 days

 

TEXT: Source: Canadian Centre for Child protection

 

 

 

Over the past 2 years Nforce took, on average, 11 days to remove reported material

 

Whereas another hosting company - IP Volume - took 21 days

 

 

Shots of IP volume

The companies say they need to determine whether it is actually illegal material.

79.   

 

 

ARDA (00:29:30): 

They would say it's just the only one who can decide whether this is child sexual abuse material or not is a judge. And legally they're absolutely right.

 

 GFX

In a statement to Dateline, IP Volume said.

 

They refuse to work with Dutch CSAM reporting bodies, because we get too many “false complaints”

 

And that recently, they have developed their own methods to remove CSAM quickly.. and its working.

 

Nforce told us

 

The company will continue to and always has, cooperated with the government especially in the matters of fighting CSAM”

 

They say they are looking at ways to remove material faster.

 

80.   

NL 2 @W 00:00:00:23

 

NL2  @ 00:04:11:03

(Dutch parliament)

But that’s not enough for the Dutch government which is considering new laws to fine companies 4 % of their annual income if they fail to remove child abuse content within 24 hours of it being reported. 

 

81.   

Arda 

 

 

GVs 

 

 

 

 

 

NL2 @ 00:33:20:18

Date one  - this is a rouge hoster

 

ARDA (00:35:08): 

That means that there's a going to be a legislative body who will oversee whether internet hosting providers are doing enough to prevent sexual abuse material will be uploaded or hosted on their servers. And if they're not doing enough, they can be fined by, uh, by this authority.

 

ARDA (01:10:36): We come to the point where we can no longer say even as an internet hosting provider, I'm not completely not responsible for anything happening on my service. And either we do that with legislation and where they don't do it, we should force them to do it

82.    

 

AD BREAK

83.   

RHIANNON

 

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Drone UK day 1

 

 

Day 1 @ 01:26:20:19

It’s been a decade since  Rhiannon was abused by a digital predator

 

She’s still battling the trauma.

 

 

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Rhiannon walking to stairs - 02:00:12:02

 

 

Day 1 @ 01:33:37:16

Rhiannon sitting on stairs texting

Rhiannon (00:50:38):

Hmm it's um, it's changed who I am really. When I look back now, it's like a dark cloud over my entire life for those 10 years. You know, it touched every part of my life. Um, I had panic attacks on a daily basis.

 

Rhiannon (00:51:49):

I had depression and I, I used to self harm. Um, I took an overdose and tried to kill myself twice. Um, you know, a had real anger issues. I was just angry that this had happened to me and it never should have happened.

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Day 1 @ 01:33:37:16

Rhiannon sitting on stairs texting

In an age when children are uploading their lives, Rhiannon warns that parents MUST engage with what their children are doing online

 

And there’s something else, much more challenging.

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Rhiannon (00:53:16):

these perpetrators are adults, they're grownups who are skilled manipulators, who can get people to do things that, you know, without them even realizing that that's what they're doing, that they're being tricked into doing something. And, you know, so young people really need to know that they're not to blame.  If I'd had that message when I was younger, maybe I would have felt more able to speak out about it. I think it's really important.

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Rhiannon walking away

There’s an urgency to her message.

 

… it’s estimated that up to 85% of children abused online are never identified by authorities.

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HELPLINES BOARD

Lifeline

Kids helpline

Marie Collins foundation

 

 

 

 

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TEXT: If this has raised any XXX for viewers – please contact life line.

 

https://www.lifeline.org.au/

PH: 13 11 14

 

 

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