*CONTENT WARNING*
In a flip-flop ruling, Instagram has pulled a child sex abuse doll seller’s account. At first, Instagram told us they did NOT remove the account because it did not go against their Community Guidelines. So we took to X to show exactly how it DID breach parent company Meta’s terms of service which prohibit publication of child exploitation material and content which sexualises children.
The account - opened in January 2023 - had nearly 300 posts including hundreds of images of child sex abuse dolls (replica girls, toddlers + infants with penetrable orifices designed to accommodate a male penis).
The replica girls were posed for abuse: on beds, holding plushies; in fetish wear; lingerie; and school uniforms.
Posts included measurements of the replica girls designed for men’s simulation of child rape - including 'oral', ‘vaginal’ and ‘anal depth’.
The account featured “customer supplied” images of child sex abuse dolls with out-of-5 star ratings. Some posts indicated the price of the replica girls designed for men’s child rape simulation. We were deeply concerned some were modelled on real, living girls (a documented occurrence).
Several posts promoting 12-16 inch long replica newborns and infants were captioned with descriptors including ‘durable and strong’ and ‘moveable full limbs’ - disturbing in the context of an account selling child sex abuse dolls to men.
The account also featured sexualised images of real prepubescent girls. They were captioned ‘Sale of packages to order’ and ‘A portfolio of models for our sponsors’. We believe these are serious red flags for child exploitation and paedophile networking.
We pointed out that yet again, Meta was failing to uphold its own terms of use, instead, facilitating child exploitation and aiding the global trade in child sexual abuse material.
We tagged Meta’s execs in the hope that the company would be pressured to remove the account. A few hours later, Meta notified us again to say the account had been removed because it went against Community Guidelines. We were pleased they had a change of heart and upheld their own terms of use.
This is not the first time we’ve called Meta out for giving free rein to child sex abuse doll accounts - read about our January 2023 win here.
Child sex abuse doll sellers pulled from X
In a related win, X has suspended two child sex abuse doll accounts we reported. The accounts operated as front pages for a prominent child sex abuse doll brand and carried other red flags for child exploitation and paedophile networking.
There are many more of these accounts operating with free rein on mainstream social media platforms. We have reported some of them and will continue to call the platforms hosting them out.
Our overarching goal is to see uniform legislation criminalising child sex abuse dolls globally. Read more here.
Watch: Campaigns Manager Caitlin Roper on Child sex abuse dolls: A New Form of Technological Terrorism Against Girls
Caitlin is a global authority on the harms of female-bodied sex dolls to women and girls. Her book on the subject is available via Spinifex Press - learn more here.
See also
Win! Temu pulls child sex abuse dolls from sale
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