{"id":1022687,"date":"2026-07-22T08:10:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022687"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:46:40","slug":"ai-playing-a-growing-role-in-child-sexual-abuse-german-report-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/22\/ai-playing-a-growing-role-in-child-sexual-abuse-german-report-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"AI playing a growing role in child sexual abuse, German report warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German authorities warned Tuesday of the &#8220;growing influence&#8221; of AI and digital technology on the sexual abuse of children, saying in a report that criminal abusers are increasingly using those tools. <\/p>\n<p>Sexual abuse of minors is &#8220;increasingly shifting to the digital realm,&#8221; driving overall statistics &#8220;upward&#8221;, said Holger Muench, the head of Germany&#8217;s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). <\/p>\n<p>A total of 20,051 minors were victims of sexual abuse in Germany in 2025, compared to 19,344 in 2024, according to the BKA report released Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German authorities warned Tuesday of the &#8220;growing influence&#8221; of AI and digital technology on the sexual abuse of children, saying in a report that criminal abusers are increasingly using those tools. Sexual abuse of minors is &#8220;increasingly shifting to the digital realm,&#8221; driving overall statistics &#8220;upward&#8221;, said Holger Muench, the head of Germany&#8217;s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). A total of 20,051 minors were victims of sexual abuse in Germany in 2025, compared to 19,344 in 2024, according to the BKA report released Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022716,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022687\/revisions\/1022716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}