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According to Cybertip.ca, Canada’s tip line for reporting online child sexual exploitation:

• Cybertip.ca has received nearly 25,000 reports from the public; over 90 per cent relate to child pornography;

• 93 per cent of confirmed child pornography reports are images of children under the age of eight;

• 38 per cent of confirmed child pornography reports involve sex acts;

• 20 per cent of confirmed child pornography reports involve a commercial aspect;

• reports to Cybertip.ca have resulted in at least 30 arrests including six Manitobans;

• 92 per cent of Canadians are concerned about child pornography being distributed on the Internet (Pollara 2005);

• only 30 per cent of children who disclose they have been sexually abused do so during childhood (Robins 2002);

• 96 per cent of Canadians feel it is important to have a place to report child pornography online (Pollara 2005); and

• on average, the U.S. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s cyber tip line receives 700 to 1,100 reports per week. The cyber tip line reviews 75,000 to 100,000 images/videos a week, forwarded from U.S law enforcement.

Highlights of Manitoba’s Action Against Child Sexual Exploitation

• Successful national campaigns to:

- criminalize Internet luring,

- raise the legal age of consent to sexual activity,

- establish a national sex offender registry, and

- tighten child pornography laws.

• Established Cybertip.ca with Child Find Manitoba, federal and industry partners.

• Developed a child victim courtroom and waiting rooms, among the first in North America.

• Established a strong new child victim support initiative and swifter justice with specialized prosecutors.

• Removed time limits for lawsuits of childhood sexual abuse in a trust relationship.

• Established Canada’s second Amber Alert program and led national effort for a

co-ordinated Canadian initiative.

• Instituted high-risk offender prosecution and correction units.

• Strengthened community notification about high-risk predators by adding offences and creating Canada’s second high-risk offender website.

• Started Kids In The Know program of Child Find Manitoba, endorsed by school divisions.

• Created Building Child Safe Organizations initiative under development by new Child Protection Advisory Council.

• Passed Canada’s first law to shut down properties where child sexual exploitation takes place.

• Funded specialized outreach workers, shelter and foster beds for sexually exploited youth.

• Helped fund awareness strategies including Neighbourhood Solutions, Reality Check and stopsexwithkids.ca.

• Initiated training for formerly-exploited women to become youth workers.

 

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