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In January 2014, a man was arrested as part of a major investigation into online child sexual exploitation. The individual had more than 80 social networking profiles, email addresses, and video chat accounts to sexually abuse children via webcams on compute

Once victims had sent him an indecent image or video of themselves, he started threatening them and involving them in far more serious abuse.

The youngest child was an eight-year-old girl she was forced to involve other children in the abuse. The suspect pretended to be a 13-year-old boy.

His case was one of a number highlighted in a report on sexual exploitation of children online, published by Europol, the EU police agency.

The suspect also coerced adult men into performing a sexual act via webcam which was recorded and used against them unless they paid money.

The report said it was not known if the indecent materials provided by the children were commercially distributed online, but added: Bearing in mind the profile of the suspect, this possibility cannot be excluded.

In a second case, a 17-year-old girl was a victim of extortion which started when her boyfriend took a photo of her breasts with his mobile phone, and shared it with his 17-year-old friend.

The latter sent the photo via a social media platform to the victim to inform her he had it, demanding money and threatening her with publishing her photo elsewhere if she refused to pay.

Verbal blackmailing also took place at school. The girl gradually began to give him 10 or 20 over the course of a few months, totalling about 600.

In a third case, a 17-year-old boy in Edinburgh took his own life in July 2013. He had been targeted online by an offender who posed as a teenage girl and with whom he had shared indecent images of himself. The victim was then blackmailed by the offender, demanding money. He was told that if he failed to pay he would post the victims naked images on social networking sites.

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EU report on online child sex abuse a wake up call