Study: 300 million children are sexually abused online every year

(UPDATE) LONDON — More than 300 million children fall victim to sexual exploitation and abuse on the Internet every year, according to the first global estimate of the scale of the problem published on Monday.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have found that one in eight children worldwide have been the victim of receiving, sharing and being exposed to sexually oriented images and videos without their consent in the last twelve months.