Aside from reported child pornography cases steadily rising, police reports show youth are sharing intimate images online with one another without consent.
Police-reported incidents of online sexual offences against children have risen significantly across Canada, including a nearly quadrupling of online child pornography cases from 2014 to 2022.
During that eight-year window there were 45,816 incidents of online child pornography and 15,630 incidents of police-reported online sexual offences against children, such as child luring, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation and non-consensual distribution of intimate images.
"Internet-related sexual offences represent a growing proportion of total sexual offences, likely due to increasing time being spent online," the report states.
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