Online sexual exploitation or abuse

CyberTipline

Report online or call 1-800-843-5678

The United States’ national centralised system for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children, including child sexual abuse material, enticement and sexual extortion.

• Run by National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)
• When Call centre open 24 hours
• Languages English, Spanish

Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline

Call or text 1-800-422-4453

Crisis counselling, information and referrals for children and adults worried about child abuse. Its site also lists the child protective services reporting number for each US state.

• Run by Childhelp

Find a child helpline in your country

A directory of child helplines around the world, listed by country with their contact details. Child helplines are run by organisations in each country to listen to and support children and young people.

• Run by Child Helpline International

Report child sexual abuse material to your national hotline

Explains how to report sexual images or videos of children found online, and links to the hotline for your country. You report the web address, not the files, and you do not need to give your name. INHOPE’s secretariat is not itself a hotline and cannot receive reports.

• Run by INHOPE

Take It Down

A free service that helps remove or stop the online sharing of nude, partially nude or sexually explicit images or videos taken of you before you were 18. It creates a digital fingerprint of the image on your own device, so you do not send the image to anyone, and you can stay anonymous. It works on public or unencrypted platforms that have agreed to take part.

• Run by National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)