Child Sexual AbuSe ImageS - Canadian Centre for Child Protection

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
LiST OF TABLES ANd FigurES 1
ACrONYmS uSEd 2
ACkNOwLEdgEmENTS 3
ThE CANAdiAN CENTrE FOr ChiLd PrOTECTiON 4
part i
1. PurPOSE 6
2. EXECuTivE SummArY 8
3. ChiLd SEXuAL ABuSE imAgES 14
3.1 Scope of the problem 14
3.2 Online child pornography and
sexual offences against children 17
4. mEThOdOLOgY ANd dEFiNiTiONS 22
4.1 Methodology and research questions 22
4.2 Limitations 24
4.3 Image classification—age range and severity of the abuse 26
5. wEBSiTES hOSTiNg ChiLd SEXuAL ABuSE imAgES 30
5.1 Website types 30
5.2 Image selection and analysis 32
5.3 Child sexual abuse images described by Cybertip.ca 34
5.4 Page analysis 39
5.5 The marketing of children 51
6. ThE “BuSiNESS” OF ChiLd SEXuAL ABuSE 56
6.1 What does a commercial website hosting child sexual abuse
images look like? 58
6.2 What kind of images are on commercial child sexual abuse
websites? 59
6.3 Where are commercial websites hosted? 61
6.4 How are the images purchased? 64
6.5 What is for sale? 65
7. CONCLuSiON ANd rECOmmENdATiONS 66
7.1 Conclusion 66
7.2 Recommendations 68
part ii
8. CYBErTiP.CA 72
8.1 Cybertip.ca history 72
8.2 Analyst training 74
8.3 How Cybertip.ca works 76
8.4 Cybertip.ca reports 77
8.5 Report triaging and analysis 78
8.6 Classifying reports 79
8.7 Addressing illegal activity 83
9. rEFErENCES 86
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