Statistics Canada data released Tuesday shows police\u002Dreported extortion cases in Canada rose by nearly 300 per cent in the last decade, but the crime…
As authorities aim to educate youth and parents about online sex crimes, experts are calling for more regulation, education and law enforcement.
He pleaded not guilty to extortion, harassment, communication with a young person to commit a sexual offence and possession and distribution of child pornography. He was not charged in relation to Todd’s death.Signy Arnason, associate executive director at the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, said the issue has grown exponentially since Todd took her life in October 2012.Police across the country have been issuing warnings to the public about sextortion scams targeting youth.
Cybertip.ca, a national tip line for reporting online child sexual abuse, said it has received “an unprecedented volume of reports from youth and sometimes their concerned parents about falling prey to aggressive sextortion tactics,” amounting to about 300 online extortion cases a month. “We need to be very careful about the messaging we send to young people, just to make sure that there are safe places that they can go to and get support before things escalate,” Fraser said.
“The demand is huge. It is at least a 10-year-old crisis, and we are just beginning to understand it more broadly across Canada,” she said. “There are still a lot of people who really don’t get police attention when they do report this criminal conduct.”“You’re more likely to see a law enforcement response if it can fall into the child pornography offences, and not just the non-consensual distribution offences or voyeurism ones,” she said.
Reynolds agreed but said she doesn’t think the law will ever be able to “keep up with technology and the harms it can create.”Article content
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