The director general for threats in the National Crime Agency says he is "very concerned" about online networks of predominantly teenage boys that are inflicting harm and committing a range of criminality. James Babbage adds that the threats teenage boys are predominantly involved with include cyber crime, fraud, child sexual abuse and commissioning violence across the internet, and that their victims tend to be young girls. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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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.