Report online sexual abuse and exploitation
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Online child sexual exploitation is the use of technology or the internet to facilitate the sexual abuse of a child, including the production and sharing of child sexual abuse material online. It can involve a wide range of behaviours and situations, but most commonly it includes grooming, live streaming, consuming child sexual abuse material, and coercing and blackmailing children for sexual purposes. You can find more information about this on online child sexual abuse and exploitation.
Online child sexual exploitation should be reported to the Australian Federal Police-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE). The ACCCE has developed a video to help guide you through how to make a report. If you or someone you know is impacted by child sexual abuse and online exploitation, there are support services on the ACCCE website.
The eSafety Commissioner helps remove serious online abuse, and illegal and restricted online content. They can help remove:
- seriously harmful child cyberbullying content
- image-based abuse (intimate images or videos shared without the consent of the person shown)
- illegal and harmful online content.
The eSafety Commissioner's website has details about what you can report to them.
Our Make a report page has further information about reporting child sexual abuse, including to child protection authorities.