Child Sexual AbuSe ImageS - Canadian Centre for Child Protection

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table 2.1 Top 5 countries hosting websites with child sexual abuse images 11
table 2.2 Top 5 countries hosting images of child sexual abuse 11
table 2.3 Top 5 countries selling material on child sexual abuse websites 11
table 5.1 Types of website incidents 30
table 5.2 Confirmed child pornography incidents broken down by website type 31
table 5.3 Comparison of the age of children and degree of abuse depicted in the child sexual abuse
images analyzed 37
table 5.4 Comparison of the sex of the children and degree of abuse depicted in the child sexual abuse
images analyzed 38
table 5.5 Percentage of websites depicting children younger than 8 years old 40
table 5.6 SMR range of the children on child sexual abuse websites 41
table 5.7 Top 15 image and website hosting countries 44
table 5.8 Number of IP addresses associated with each webpage 47
table 5.9 The most common TLDs on child pornography websites 48
table 5.10 20 most observed words on child sexual abuse websites 52
table 5.11 Image date ranges 54
table 6.1 Severity of abuse depicted in child abuse images analyzed on commercial websites 59
table 6.2 Age range of children in sexual abuse images on commercial sites 59
table 6.3 Age range of children in commercial child sexual abuse images 60
table 6.4 Sex of the child in sexual abuse images on commercial sites 60
table 6.5 Host location of commercial child sexual abuse images and websites based upon
a geographic IP lookup 61
table 6.6 Movement of a single commercial child sexual abuse website over a 48-hour period 63
table 6.7 Form of payment purportedly accepted on commercial child sexual abuse websites 64
table 8.1 Cybertip.ca flowchart of reported information 76
table 8.2 Secondary (Cybertip.ca) classification of analyzed incidents 82
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figure 5.1 Severity of abuse depicted in 4,110 unique child sexual abuse images 34
figure 5.2 Approximate age range of the children in the sexual abuse images based on their sexual
maturation rate 35
figure 5.3 Sex of the child in the image 38
figure 5.4 Webpages hosted on multiple servers 43
figure 5.5 A webpage's title is found in the browser's top left corner 53
figure 8.1 Type of reports submitted to Cybertip.ca (as classified by the reporting person) 77
figure 8.2 Analyst reclassification of public reports into Cybertip.ca incidents 79
figure 8.3 Analyst decision tree 80
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