Online grooming offences have reached a record high, with police data revealing a four-year-old boy as being among the victims. The NSPCC described the figures, which show an almost doubling of such ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Offences of indecent communication with children have risen by more than 80% over the past five years in Scotland, according to ...

The messaging app Snapchat is the most widely-used platform for online grooming, according to police figures supplied to the children’s charity the NSPCC. More than 7,000 Sexual Communication with a ...

The NSPCC has warned Facebook that it risks becoming a "one-stop grooming shop" if it presses ahead with plans to encrypt across all its messaging services. Facebook is considering end-to-end ...