It can happen anywhere online that allows digital communication, such as social networks, text messaging, email and private messaging, comments on live streaming sites and voice chat in gaming.
Children and young people can be revictimised (experience further abuse) when abusive content is recorded, uploaded or shared by others online. This can happen if the original abuse happened online or offline.
Children and young people can experience several types of abuse online including cyberbullying, emotional abuse, sexting, sexual abuse and sexual and criminal exploitation.
Online grooming
Children and young people can also be groomed online: perpetrators may use online platforms to build a trusting relationship with the child in order to abuse them. This abuse may happen online or the perpetrator may arrange to meet the child in person with the intention of abusing them.
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