Online Sexual Offences Against Children up 220 Percent in 10 Years

Online Sexual Offences Against Children up 220 Percent in 10 Years
Online sex crimes against Canadian minors have jumped 220 percent in the past decade, according to data from Statistics Canada. Christian Wiediger/Unsplash
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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.