Child grooming and fraud rose online during lockdown as paedophiles and scammers gained unprecedented access to a captive internet audience.
Police recorded a higher number of online child sexual abuse crimes in June than in any other month on record. A similar rise was seen in March when the tough lockdown was imposed.
There were 530 online child abuse crimes recorded between April and June, with 226 in June alone, according to the latest quarterly update submitted to the Scottish Police Authority. This was an increase of 21 per cent against the same period last year and 34 per cent higher than the five-year average.
The quarterly update stated: “An increase in these types of crimes was anticipated during the lockdown period as perpetrators of
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