In Canada, a child porn investigation yields a growing number of arrests – more to come as investigators close in on customers of child porn sites. A four-year-old boy from Ottawa and a twelve year-old girl from Burlington are safe from continued victimization by child sex abusers and pornographers. The father of the four-year-old has been arrested in this case and remains unidentified due to the age of the victim. This is just the beginning. Due to advanced technology, police are able to identify child predators on the internet by searching out customers of child pornography sites. Thirty one criminals have been arrested so far. And many more are expected. Police have identified that 65,000 computers in Canada alone are actively distributing child pornography at the present time.
Evidence shows that people who view child pornography have a high likelihood of sexually abusing children in the near future. Police have uncovered images of infants being raped.
Since August 2006, over 5,000 investigations into internet crimes against children have been completed and this has resulted in 809 people in Canada that have been charged for internet crimes against children.