“I think one of the most devastating things that our investigators have seen for the past five years is what we call coerced self-produced child sexual abuse imagery,” Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, said.

“And it’s literally young people, sometimes as young as six, but more often in the tween area is when they’re being coerced to perform sexual acts.

“The vast majority of these are filmed in the bedrooms and the bathrooms of the family home. In some of the videos, we can even hear the parents in the background calling for dinner. So this can literally happen right under our noses,” she shared.

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While the Mirror Mirror program has been helpfully exposing the dangers of the online world for parents, it also features experts who have given their best advice for parents managing internet usage in the home.

“What I tell parents to do is manage the WiFi,” Marshall explained to the camera.

“If you cut off the WiFi essentially you cut off the dopamine to these devices, and they’re pretty useless,” he shared.

Grant also suggested having your children use their devices more openly.

“Have your kids use technology in open areas of the home. Nothing good happens with a digital device behind the closed door of a bedroom or a bathroom,”she suggested.

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