19 out of 20 cases of child sexual abuse go undetected

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Wasaga Beach man charged in child porn raids by Trina Berlo 2/5/09 OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino announced at a press conference in Toronto earlier today a total of 93 charges had been laid against 31 people after police executed 33 search warrants in raids across the province yesterday. Charges include sexual assault, sexual interference, making child pornography, making child pornography available, distributing child pornography and possession of child pornography....Since the strategy was implemented in August 2006 at the request of the provincial government, police have laid 1,983 charges against 634 people as a result of 4,782 investigations. The Child Sexual Exploitation Section of the OPP investigated another 996 cases, resulting in 392 charges being laid against 144 people....Those charged are all men and many are relatives or neighbours of victims, said police. Police say collections of child pornography in circulation on the Internet include hundreds of thousands of images and hundreds of child rape videos. The victims are increasingly younger and the images are more violent as the appetite for live video of child sexual abuse on the Internet grows, say police. Often mistaken as victimless, most child pornography offences in Ontario involve the actual sexual exploitation, rape and sexual torture of children, including infants, on-camera, said police....Studies suggest 19 out of 20 cases of child sexual abuse go undetected. Only one in 10 adults report sexual assault and the sexual assault of children is reported less often. Possessors of child pornography have a very high propensity to be hands-on abusers, and studies in the United States indicate that anywhere from 30-80 per cent of collectors of child sexual abuse images are hands-on abusers. Studies indicate abusers have anywhere from 13-30 child victims each. http://www.simcoe.com/article/128263