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AI drives rise in online child abuse as justice system scrambles to respond

From right: Ulrich Jaenen, GIZ Police Team Leader; Lilian Orieko, Lawyers Without Borders Programme Manager; Sylvia Yiantet, National Council for Administration of Justice; and Monica Kay Akinyi, Busara Sasa, at a Lawyers Without Borders event at Acts of Hope Children’s Home, Dagoretti, Nairobi, May 27, 2025. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Authorities are sounding the alarm over a rise in online child exploitation, warning that artificial intelligence is fuelling dangerous new forms of abuse.

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