Fifth of young women and girls ‘cyber-flashed’ in past year, UK study reveals

Online sexual abuse of young women having ‘devastating impact’, says charity that commissioned research

More than a fifth of girls and young women in the UK have been ‘“cyber-flashed” in the last year and a similar number have faced sexual harassment, according to a study exposing endemic internet sexual abuse.

The polling of females between the age of 13 and 21 who use social media found that more than a quarter had experienced bullying and more than one in three suffered sexual harassment – behaviour against girls and women online that campaigners believe must be criminalised.

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