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A mobile phone screen showing six dating apps.

  • A request for photos of their children or other children they had access to
  • Pressure to provide sexual images of those children
  • A request to meet those children before it was "appropriate"
  • Requests for information of a sexual nature about those children (eg. breast size, whether they had their period)
  • An offer of payment for photos, videos or live streams of those children

"We found that about half (48.5 per cent) of those that had been asked for an image, reported being pressured to provide sexual images of children,"
he said.

A bald white man in a suit standing in a hallway

Blurred image of a woman and child on a mobile phone

"It's a double-edged sword … as a user [you can feel] safe through that anonymity, but it's the same for the person that's contacting you."

"Unfortunately, I have friends that, you know, [put] photos of their children naked online,"
she said.

Hands hold mobile phones with blurred images on the screens.

"[That] made me feel very violated as there are photos of my family included which were intentionally not on my dating profile,"
she said.

Anonymous woman with long hair holding smartphone

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