The Indian Child Protection Fund (ICPF) on Monday said that Bhubaneswar is among the cities where the demand for generic child pornographic material (also referred to as Child Sexual Abuse Material) is highest, thereby posing grave risks to its children during the Covid-induced lockdown.
The ICPF reported that since the lockdown, online data monitoring websites are showing an increase in demand for searches like ‘child porn’, ‘sexy child’ and ‘teen sex videos’.
Data from Pornhub, the world’s largest pornography website, also revealed that traffic from India has increased by 95 per cent between March 24 and 26 compared to their average traffic before coronavirus.
“This is a blatant violation of the directions of the Honourable Supreme Court and a violation of national policy. Pornographic websites are playing hide-and-seek with Indian law and judiciary by simply changing their website URLs. The Government of India must urgently crackdown on child pornography and also initiate a global dialogue for an international convention against child sexual abuse material,” asserted ICPF spokesperson Nivedita Ahuja.
The ICPF has released a report titled ‘Child Sexual Abuse Material in India’, a research of child pornography demand in 100 Indian cities like New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar and Indore.