Telefono Arcobaleno, on the occasion of the year of the twentieth anniversary of Children’s Rights, has turned the spotlight on the increase of the online worldwide child market.

The latest information is now available online at www.inthefrontline.org, through the perusal of this website, everybody can be aware of the real dimensions of the repugnancy of the online “free” child market which is not in the least virtual. Malta is listed on the site along with other countries accessing online paedophilia.

Telefono Arcobaleno, the Organisation that, since 1996, has grown in experience and competence in chasing online paedophilia, reports that twenty billion online movements have caused the circulation of over one million, seven hundred thousand images that uncovered the persecution of 36,149 children, 42% of whom where under the age of 7 and 77% of whom where under the age of 9.

“Less than 1% of victims of child sexual abuse images has been detected, therefore it is necessary to divert all available resources and energies towards identifying, recuperating, curing and socially reintegrating all abused children.” States Mr. Arena, Telefono Arcobaleno’s president and founder.

As documented in the latest child online sexual abuse Report of Telefono Arcobaleno’s International Observatory: USA, Germany, Russia, UK, Italy, France and Canada are the largest “paedophiliac material consumers.” Europe is the starting point of this crime against humanity, here, paedophile web clients and users grew by 58%. The presence of paedophile material on European servers has quadrupled from 2003 to today with an increase of 406%.

“The latest Telefono Arcobaleno’s warning hasn’t got anything to do with the virtual world” Giovanni Arena, president and founder states. “Pedo-business is confirmed as the only business of the new economy that has not minimally felt the world crisis and advances with great rates of development, In 2008 18% of paedophilia websites had commercial use “.

36,149 children are exploited in the production of pornographic material for the web, 8 children are reported on the web every day, 77,50% are victims under the age of nine, payments are effected via online transactions from various internet sites that are mainly allocated on American, Dutch, Russian, Ukraine and German servers, but they are used to their full advantage by acceptinging the most common credit cards.

The full report is available in this year’s annual report at www.inthefrontline.org the abstract is available on Telefono Arcobaleno’s official website www.telefonoarcobaleno.org Information centre : Maria Clara Marchi – email clara.marchi@telefonoarcobaleno.org

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