100 groups does not sound like a small number.

inyourtenement · on Aug 2, 2015

Here are some detailed numbers.

DanBC · on Aug 2, 2015

Out of fifty thousand?

And we don't know the numbers of people posting to those groups, nor how often they posted, nor how many people were downloading from those groups.

Mechanisms were around for providers to filter out groups used to distribute images of child sexual abuse, so that was one option.

I think (bicbw) that the legal situation for providers was unclear in the 90s and they weren't sure if they were responsible or not.

thret · on Aug 3, 2015

I would intuitively expect murder to be more common than child sexual abuse, but perhaps I am being naive.

DanBC · on Aug 4, 2015

I don't know what you mean.

Do you mean "more people are murdered than are sexually abused"? That's trivially disproved, although the numbers are tricky.

Or 27% of women and 16% of men were sexually abused as children. (Abstract doesn't give a country). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01452134909...

In 2013/2014 there were less than 600 homicides recorded.

In a population of 60m 1 in 20 is 3,000,000