WINNIPEG-Sexualized images of children under the age of 9, most depicting explicit sexual acts, represent the largest and fastest-growing category in Canada’s underground child pornography trade, according to exclusive data obtained by the Star from the Canadian Centre for Child Protection.Īnd their abusers, say experts, are overwhelmingly family and friends.Ĭypertip.ca, a national, non-profit tip line run by the centre that gathers and investigates alleged child pornography online, last year catalogued more than 15,000 images from the Internet of children up to 8 years old, according to the data.
