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"Under section 161 of the Criminal Code of Canada, it is a crime to distribute child pornography. "

 

 

 


 


 The scope of the problem



  • Commercial child pornography is estimated to be a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide.2
  • Tens of thousands of new images or videos are put on the Internet every week and hundreds of thousands of searches for child sexual abuse images are performed daily. 3
  • It is estimated that there are over 5 million unique child sexual abuse images on the Internet.4
  • The children in the images are getting younger:
    • 83 percent of children are 12 years old or younger.5
    • 39 percent had images of children between the ages of 3 and 5.6
    • 19 percent had images of infants under 3 years old.7
  • The content of the images and videos is becoming increasingly violent:
    • Over 80 percent of the images involve penetration.8
    • 20 percent of the images involve torture or bondage.9
    • The number of images of "serious child abuse" has quadrupled between 2003 and 2007.10
87 percent had images of prepubescent children that were highly graphic.11