On any given day—in communities across the nation—thousands of children are being victimized by sex traffickers. In 2022, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) received 31.9 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation—up from 29.3 million reports in 2021 and 21.7 million in 2020. NCEMC is a national nonprofit founded in 1984…

Shocking police failures into online child sexual abuse investigations in England and Wales have been identified in a new watchdog report. His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) found children were being put more at risk as some forces took up to 18 months to act on evidence of abuse or…

The principal of a public elementary school in Kitchener, Ontario, has been arrested on multiple charges including sexual assault, child pornography, and luring an underage victim. London Police Service issued a news release on March 31 stating that Phillip Sallewsky, age 55, has been arrested following a joint investigation involving police forces from London, Toronto,…

Reducing police powers to strip-search under-18s “only serves to increase the attractiveness of children for criminal exploitation,” a former government special adviser has said. Rory Geoghegan said the police powers are needed because children are “often” forced or coerced into “concealing dangerous drugs on and around their bodies by vile individuals” seeking to profit from…

The Manitoba government is spending $2.1 million on a new child abuse investigative unit. Premier Heather Stefanson says the provincewide, integrated child response unit will build on services offered by the Toba Centre for Children and Youth in collaboration with the Winnipeg Police Service and RCMP. Stefanson says the money is part of her government’s…

The cost-of-living crisis has seen criminal gangs in the UK groom young children into their ranks by buying them food, child safety experts have said. In one case, a schoolchild who couldn’t afford lunch was bought fast food, while another was targeted with sweets and magazines, Parliament’s Education Committee was told on Tuesday. MPs heard…

Billionaires Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey publicly disagreed about Twitter’s handling of child exploitation in a series of tweets over the weekend. Musk, who took over the company in October, took to the social media platform on Friday where he blasted former Twitter executives, stating that it “is a crime that they refused to take action on…

Commentary Since Elon Musk’s Twitter revolution, two curious things have happened. Pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and AstraZeneca have suspended their advertising budgets with the social media platform. They did so alongside other major brands after a “social justice” attack was launched by the usual activists determined to bankrupt Twitter. It’s become commonplace for activist pressure groups…

At a news conference held Wednesday, Toronto Police announced that “Project Maverick,” a province-wide collaboration to locate and charge individuals associated with online child exploitation, had led to a total of 428 charges being laid against 107 people in just the month of October. Police have released a full list of those arrested and charged…

Commentary The world of edgy Western film has taken a turn for the worse. While it has always been a gimmick for Australian viewers to flip across to SBS and alarm ourselves at the liberal doses of nudity, the age of Netflix has struck up an arms race where the winner is the program that…