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The Canadian Centre for Child Protection, in partnership with Bell, has released a new study titled Child Sexual Abuse Images: An analysis of websites by Cybertip.ca (Click here to read the news release). The study reinforces concerns regarding the scope and severity of child sexual abuse imagery and underscores the need for additional solutions.

Owned and operated by the Canadian Centre, Cybertip.ca is Canada's national tipline for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children. The research contained in the report is based on Cybertip.ca's examination of nearly 16,000 incidents involving sites hosting child pornography and the analysis of more than 4,000 unique images of child sexual abuse. More than 82% of the images assessed by Cybertip.ca depicted very young, pre-pubescent children under 12 years of age. Most concerning was the severity of abuse depicted, with more than 35% of all images showing serious sexual assaults.

The report provides a series of 12 recommendations and a number of educational priorities to assist educators, policy makers, and other stakeholders who are working to reduce the online sexual exploitation of children.

Links to access the full research report and a brief summary report are on the left-hand side. Below them are links to download PDFs of backgrounders on the report's recommendations, key statistics, and educational priorities.

In partnership with Bell Canada, Cybertip.ca's Research Series is pulling together the most crucial aspects of the tens of thousands of reports submitted by the Canadian public. This Child Sexual Abuse Images report is the first in a series that will include the publication of unique research in the area of online child sexual exploitation, and will promote the creation of best practices for child protection in Canada.

For more information on the Research Series, please click here.