The Lucy Faithfull Foundation's Stop It Now service saw 81,426 calls from Londoners in 2024, revealing a concerning trend: 10% of callers were women seeking help for child abuse tendencies. This statistic coincides with a doubling of police-recorded female-perpetrated child sexual abuse cases from 2015 to 2019. A man, alias Frank, called in expressing deep shame and a desire to stop escalating his behavior after receiving an alert about his internet searches. The charity stresses the importance of early intervention to prevent future offenses and the severe emotional toll on families.
I just crossed those boundaries. I don't really know why. I need to stop this before it kind of gets into anything worse and becomes a bit more of a pattern.
The 23-year-old says he heard about the service after his illegal internet searches flashed up an online alert three days earlier. It kind of gave me a bit of a reality check.
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