Allegations of sexual assault among classmates are being investigated by police after more than 90 schools in Wales were named in an online campaign. The Everyone's Invited website was set up to help pupils anonymously report abuse and harassment by classmates. Some told BBC Wales it was common for girls as young as 11 to be pressured into sending nudes, or receive unwanted explicit images from boys. The Welsh government said the safety of children was a priority. North Wales Police said it was investigating two cases linked to testimony on the website, while Dyfed Powys and South Wales Police forces did not provide figures. Gwent Police said it had not opened any cases. School inspectors for the education watchdog Estyn are due to begin entering classrooms to investigate "peer-on-peer sexual harassment". A similar review in England last term found sexual harassment had become "normalised" among school children. He said head teachers were "deluding themselves" if they did not think sexual harassment was a problem.
The court heard she ‘was groomed at the age of 10 in relation to this type of behaviour’
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A then year-old girl downloaded hundreds of videos and images of infants and young children raped and tortured, a court has heard. The court heard it was alleged the teen believed paedophilia was an acceptable sexuality and that she could access the dark web, using a specialised internet browser to reach hidden sites online. She is accused of possessing images and videos classified as category one, graphically featuring sexual activity. She cannot be named because she is a minor. It came to the attention of social workers in following concerns she had been sexually exploited online. He adjourned the case for the Director of Public Prosecutions to complete a book of evidence for her trial. Her solicitor pleaded with the court to impose strict bail conditions, including banning her from having or using any internet-capable device.
'I was sent 50 or 60 images of privates'
The material the teenager is accused of possessing allegedly featured children, from infants to teenagers, being sexually assaulted. A year-old girl had dozens of child sexual abuse videos and images in a computer account and wrote a diary about her interest in the rape, torture and murder of children, a court has heard. She has been charged under the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act with allegedly possessing 78 images and 72 videos containing visual representations of a child engaged in explicit sexual activities. The material was allegedly stored in a Dropbox account. She is accused of having a handwritten diary with drawings and text defined as child sexual abuse images. The third charge is possessing the material in late in a Dropbox account for sharing. Det Garda Cathal Connolly told the court the girl came to a Dublin Garda station with her mother when she was 13 and freely offered information about her Dropbox account. She allegedly used it to store and share child sexual abuse images with a youth in Munster who later abused a child sexually.
Some girls can be contacted by up to 11 boys a night asking for nude images, the schools watchdog for England says. In an Ofsted survey, girls explained that if they blocked boys on social media "they just create multiple accounts to harass you". The report also found nine in 10 girls believed that sexist name-calling and being sent unwanted explicit photos or videos happened "a lot" or "sometimes" between their peers. The watchdog is warning that sexual harassment has become "normalised" among school-age children. Students often do not see the point of reporting abuse and many teachers underestimate the scale of these problems, Ofsted says.
