EU agrees tougher child sexual abuse laws, expanding offences to cover AI-enabled exploitation, increasing penalties, and strengthening long-term support and justice for victims

The new rules introduce clearer provisions on consent, criminalise technology-enabled abuses such as AI-generated child sexual abuse material and livestreamed exploitation, strengthen safeguards against grooming and sexual extortion, and enhance victim support through free healthcare, legal aid, helplines, accommodation assistance, compensation rights…