Snapchat No.1 Grooming Platform, Says NSPCC

With alarming figures showing an 89 per cent increase in grooming cases in the last six years, the NSPCC has reported that data shows Snapchat tops the list of common platforms that perpetrators have been using to target children online. 

Record Levels of Grooming 

Since “Sexual Communication with a Child” was established as an offence in 2017, online grooming crimes in the UK have hit record levels. The NSPCC has reported on its website that Snapchat is used in almost half of the known cases of child grooming (48 per cent), flagging Snapchat as a hub for online predators and the most common platform used to target young children.