Ms Shirley Scott:

People disclose sexual violence that has happened to them and may also speak about additional harm where technology is used. Our helpline is starting to capture the use of technology as a growing trend. We started looking at it back in 2016 and, at that stage, less than 1% of the callers were speaking about online harassment and communications in addition to the sexual violence they had suffered. That had increased to 1.3% in 2017 and, in 2018, the figure was still less than 2% but it is rising.