which shows that Internet content rating and children's media literacy need to be enhanced. Digital Sexual Exploitation and Online Grooming 16. From 2017 to 2020, the number of reported child sexual exploitation victims has been on the rise,10 with the largest number of reported cases being sexual exploitation related to intimate images, and most of the victims were victims of grooming and deception.11 In addition, a high percentage of children whose intimate images were leaked did not seek help12 as they did not know who to turn to. This indicates that children did not know the boundaries of privacy or the law, and some of them were not familiar with the complaint channels and were unable to seek help in time. 17. According to investigation and survey conducted by the Control Yuan13 and an NGO, 14 37.7% of children have used dating apps, of which 11.8% have been asked to meet their online friends alone and 18.8% have gone to the meetup alone. Furthermore, about 6,500 children go missing and leave home each year. Data from 2019 shows more than 60% of the children who were sexually exploited were groomed over the Internet, indicating that crimes involving online grooming and sexual exploitation are rampant. 10 11 12 13 14 According to the MOHW, 1,691 victims were reported in 2020, an increase of more than 30% compared to 1,060 in 2017. According to MOHW data, among the 1,696 reported cases of child sexual exploitation victims in 2020, there were 1,377 cases (81.19%) of "using a child or youth to engage in sexual intercourse or obscene acts for others to watch" (44 cases) and "filming a child or youth engaging in sexual intercourse or obscene acts, or producing other objects that show a child or youth engaging in sexual intercourse or obscene acts" (1,333 cases). According to the 2019 iWIN results report, a survey was conducted on 25,069 children aged 11-18 in 380 senior (or vocational) high schools, junior high schools and elementary schools across Taiwan, and it was found that 1,616 (6.45%) children were victims of intimate image leak, and 43.5% did not seek help; among them, 33.5% did not seek help because they did not know who to seek help from. The Control Yuan investigation report approved on Jul 6, 2021. (Missing Child and Court Bail for Major Sexual Exploitation Defendant) Child Welfare League Foundation (2018). 2018 Survey of Children’s Usage of Dating App, Their Online Friendship and How They Leave Home. Retrieved from https://www.children.org.tw/publication_research/research_report/2232 14