Online Sexual Offences Against Children Increased by 220 Percent Since 2014

Published on March 13, 2024

Online sex crimes against Canadian minors have jumped 220 percent in the past decade, according to newly released government data. Child pornography cases make up a large portion of online sex crimes involving Canadian children with such incidents quadrupling between 2014 and 2022, according to a Statistics Canada report. Numbers have jumped from 32 incidents per 100,000 children in 2014 to 125 incidents in 2022. There have also been 15,630 incidents of online sexual offences against children with online luring accounting for the majority of the reports, StatCan said. A total of 2,492 online sexual offences against children occurred in 2022. Together, incidents of child pornography and online sex offences have jumped from 50 incidents per 100,000 children in 2014 to 160 incidents by 2022, the report found....

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