These are numbers that are hard to grasp and difficult to bear.
On average, 49 children and young people are victims of sexualized violence in Germany every day.
According to the Federal Criminal Police Office, there are more than 17,700 cases recorded by the police each year, and almost 2,300 victims were younger than six years old.
And that the number of detected cases of possession or distribution of child pornography has doubled is another sad culmination of a trend in which the Internet is increasingly becoming a crime scene.
However, the dark field of these heinous acts is likely to be even greater.
Here, too, there is an urgent need for action in researching the actual extent.
Especially since Europe has become the hub for the portrayal of acts of abuse that is widespread on the Internet.
Like the EU Commission, Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser therefore wants to take tougher, faster and more effective action against "one of the worst forms of crime".
There is no question that Google and Facebook must be obliged, as Brussels wants, to search their publicly accessible platforms for videos and photos of sexual abuse in order to catch the perpetrators.
However, Faeser is not the only one who has concerns that millions of encrypted, private chats can and may be viewed without a specific reason.
This is unlikely to hold up in court either.