Soon-to-be-introduced national legislation may give a boost to those battling what Public Safety Canada calls “one of the most disturbing public safety issues facing society today” — online child sexual exploitation. In the coming weeks, ...

A former Taekwondo Canada coach has been found guilty of sexual assault and other sex-related offences involving a teenage student. Shin Wook Lim pleaded not guilty to 15 charges involving two female students, including sexual assault and sexual ...

A sentencing hearing for Harry Charles Sadd, 74, heard that the ex-badminton coach and teacher meets the criteria for pedophilic disorder, according to a psychiatric assessment. Sadd pleaded guilty to eight charges relating to sexual abuse ...

Nearly all the employees at Ottawa’s largest school board have received training to prevent child sexual abuse and may soon be asked to sign a yearly declaration confirming they understand that protecting children is their responsibility. Both ...

A former Edmonton youth soccer coach faces a possible prison sentence for making and distributing written child pornography and for trying to arrange having sex with children. Wesley Vander Leeuw was found guilty of five criminal charges Tuesday ...

TORONTO - A 32-year-old man sexually assaulted at least three children at two Toronto churches and filmed the incidents last year, police alleged Thursday as they asked for the public's help in identifying more potential victims. Toronto police ...

The 15-year-old girl was seeking refuge when she came to Janet and Joe Holm’s house in the mid-2000s. The couple lived in a big white farmhouse on a sprawling property just minutes outside Bloomfield, Ont., a village in Prince Edward County ...

A Sudbury court heard Wednesday that a family with a “happy-go-lucky, fun-loving son” had watched that boy disappear in his teen years, following sexual abuse by a former teacher whom he had trusted. “We had to watch him self-destruct,” ...

VANCOUVER—Over nine days in the summer of 2018, a joint sting operation between Vancouver police and RCMP arrested 47 men seeking teenage girls online for sex. Among them: a teacher, a firefighter, a school trustee. In Ontario, provincial ...

Canadian AI technology company Two Hat has released CEASE.ai, an image recognition technology for social platforms and law enforcement that detects images containing child sexual abuse. By making the technology available to public and private ...

More than 700 school employees committed or were alleged to have committed sexual offences against nearly 1,300 children over the last 20 years, according to a first-of-its kind study of child sexual abuse in Canada. The report, released ...

A three-year international investigation into the online sexual abuse of children has resulted in the arrest of over 150 people, including 16 Canadians, police revealed on Thursday. Project Mercury is a joint investigation between authorities ...

OTTAWA -- It may have a scary name, but it's intended to help -- not frighten -- already traumatized children. Project Arachnid is an automated system that crawls like a spider through online links to detect child sexual abuse images and videos, ...

Given recent events in the community, a local sexual assault group is hoping to raise awareness about issues that have contributed to a 92-per-cent increase in clientele over the past year. Recently, two children’s camp counsellors were ...

It's been said, once your picture is posted online, it's there forever. But, an activist group aiming to protect children and teens is trying to change that. The Canadian Centre for Child Protection recently launched a new tool to combat the ...

Things are always busy for the southern Alberta Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit who opens more than 400 investigations into sexual exploitation of children annually. Const. Heather Bangle said with only eight investigators, it’s ...

Pedophiles are re-posting innocuous photos of children lifted from their parents’ Facebook accounts, a perverse phenomenon highlighting the darker side of “sharenting,” those hunting online predators warn. Pictures of children doing ...

An Ottawa father says the staying of sexual assault charges against a teen accused of sexually assaulting his young daughter left him and his family feeling angry and frustrated by the criminal justice system. Ottawa judge stays sexual assault ...

An Oakville/Burlington sailing coach who faced 21 sexual assault-related charges against young teen boys is to be sentenced in October after pleading guilty to three of those charges. Sean Hewson, 33, pled guilty to sexual exploitation, sexual ...

Alicia Koback, 49, claims she was sexually abused by her now-deceased adoptive father throughout her childhood is suing her mother, the Seventh-day Adventist Church and two of its schools, alleging they knew about the abuse but failed to protect ...