00:00Well, we are very concerned. This is sadistic and violent abuse that we're seeing perpetrated
00:06by these online gangs. They're bringing together cybercrime and fraud, but also child sexual
00:12abuse and commissioning violence across the internet. So the threats that these teenage
00:17boys are involved in include cybercrime and fraud, child sexual abuse and commissioning
00:23violence across the internet. The offenders are predominantly young men, predominantly
00:28teenagers, and their victims are predominantly girls somewhat younger than they are. I certainly
00:35think there is a degree of extremism going on here, and I think there is also a sort
00:40of cycle whereby the offending becomes more and more extreme. So it's clear that this
00:47behaviour is not happening in a vacuum. The context is absolutely the misogynist influencing
00:54that these teenagers are seeing.
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