Child Sexual AbuSe ImageS - Canadian Centre for Child Protection

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10.5%foffcommercialfwebsitesfinclude—
amongfimagesfoffyoungerfchildren—
imagesfclassifiedfasfSmRf5. This is lower
than the 33.6% of all websites hosting child
sexual abuse images that have images of
sexually mature individuals.
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6 | the "buSiNeSS" of Child Sexual abuSe
Commercial websites are more likely to host images of
girl children. Table 6.4 shows the breakdown of the sex
of children in the images.
While commercial child pornography websites do
contain images assessed as SMR 4 and 5, there tend to
be fewer images on the page that would be considered
“grey”(sexually mature individuals who may be
underage). Commercial child pornography websites
are more likely to contain only child pornography
images.
Websites selling child sexual abuse images have
an average of 22.0 images per page. The range on
commercial child pornography websites is much
smaller than overall child pornography websites
(1-467), with a maximum of 132 images on a page.
97.9% of commercial websites focus on multiple
children rather than on an individual child
(compared to 70.2% of all child pornography
websites).
TAble 6.4 Sex of the child in sexual abuse images on commercial websites
Sex of the child in the image images on commercial
websites
TAble 6.3 age range of children in
commercial child sexual abuse
images
Only Smr 1 5.8%
Only Smr 2 1.2%
Only Smr 3 0.6%
Only Smr 4 0.3%
Smr 1-2 16.3%
Smr 1-3 18.5%
Smr 1-4 13.2%
Smr 1-5 7.1%
Smr 2-3 0.9%
Smr 3-4 1.8%
Smr 2-5 2.2%
Smr 3-4 28.6%
Smr 3-5 3.1%
Smr 4-5 0.3%
images on all child
pornography websites
girl(s) 90.2% 83.0%
Boy(s) 6.8% 14.6%
indistinguishable 2.2% 1.2%
Both girl(s) and boy(s) 0.8% 1.2%
6.3 where are commercial websites hosted?
The 800 commercial websites were hosted on 1,091 unique IP addresses at the time
of analysis. The unique images analyzed on these websites were hosted on 1,067
unique IP addresses. See table 6.5 for a breakdown of host countries based on a
geographic IP lookup.
TAble 6.5 host location of commercial child sexual abuse images and websites based upon a
geographic ip lookup
host country host countries of images
on commercial child
sexual abuse websites
host countries of
commercial websites
(unique ip addresses)
percentage of all
child pornography
websites in the
country that are
commercial
united States 70.5% (752) 65.6% (716) 13.3%
Canada 8.2% (87) 8.7% (95) 8.2%
russia 3.7% (39) 5.6% (61) 2.3%
united kingdom 2.8% (30) 1.5% (16) 20.5%
germany 1.9% (20) 1.8% (20) 13.8%
Spain 1.7% (18) 1.6% (17) 15.7%
France 1.7% (18) 0.8% (9) 7.7%
Australia 1.0% (11) 1.1% (12) 38.7%
Netherlands 0.9% (10) 2.9% (32) 7.2%
italy 0.8% (9) 0.5% (5) 54.5%
Panama 0.7% (8) 0.9% (10) 12.3%
Japan 0.7% (8) 0.4% (4) 0.7%
Poland 0.7% (7) 0.4% (4) 80.0%
ukraine 0.7% (7) 9.1%
Belgium 0.6% (6) 0.3% (3) 75.0%
Turkey 0.5% (5) 3.3% (36) 57.1%
Lithuania 0.5% (5) 40.0%
China 0.4% (4) 0.7% (8) 5.6%
Singapore 0.4% (4) 0.7% (8) 61.5%
hong kong 0.4% (4) 0.5% (5) 5.9%
Thailand 0.3% (3) 0.5% (5) 8.8%
Czech republic 0.4% (4) 15.4%
One or two
instances*
1.1% (12) 21 2.1% (23) 22
total 1,067 1,091
21 Argentina, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Malaysia, Israel, and Mexico
22 Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Israel, Lithuania, Ukraine, Argentina, Chile, Estonia, South Korea, Mexico, Malaysia, Portugal, and South Africa
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