The abuse includes incidents where young people are coerced through “grooming, pressure or manipulation” to share images, according to campaign group Internet Matters, which has carried out the research.
This form of abuse also includes young people voluntarily sharing images between each other, which are then reshared without their knowledge or consent.
Internet Matters warns that there is also a “significant risk” that nude images taken by children of themselves could pass “into the hands of adult offenders" and then be "shared and distributed within offender networks”.
The research involved interviews with teenagers and children as young as 11, parents and teachers.
Children aged 11 to 13 appear most frequently in self-generated nude pictures and volume of images being generated by this age group “continues to rise at a disturbing rate”.
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