Sexual Offences Against Children In Canada

.0 INTRODUCTION
“You would not expect a scientific researcher inquiring into the cause of cot death to start his or her research without first reading about the findings of others cot death research” (Sunders 2003).
2.1 CHILD PROTECTION
“Safety and security don’t just happen they are the results of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most valuable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.”(Nelson Mandela)
As per the Interpretation and General Clauses Act 1974 and the Child Protection Act 1994 a “Child” is considered to be an unmarried person under the age of 18. Every country has its own way to govern and to operate, but what is common is that they all have a child protection section

Canada
Sexual offences against children and youth in Canada began to be recognised as a serious matter in year 1970. Parliament established a special committee to enquire into the problem fully and make recommendations in 1980. The Report of the Committee on Sexual Offences Against Children and Youth (the Badgley Report) confirmed that CSA in Canada has become a major problem matter which have a great impact on Canada’s children. According to the section 151 of the Criminal Code, the legal age of consenting to a sexual activity is 14 years old.
“Every person who, for a sexual purpose, touches, directly or indirectly, with a part of the body or with an object, any part of the body of a person under the age of fourteen years is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary

This represents an opportunity to promote children’ issues and status all over the world.

2.4 TYPES OF SEXUAL ABUSE
Child sexual abuse is such a vast term to describe the various inhuman sexual offences that can be done on children that it is categorised into different types which are as follows.
2.4.1 Child pornography
According to section 253 subsection 1 of the Criminal Code, “procuring, enticing and exploiting prostitute” is said to commit an offence if any person who, to gratify the passions of another and for gain, procures, entices or leads away, for purposes of prostitution, another person or exploits, or is in an accomplice in, the prostitution of another person, even with the consent of that person, or draw a benefit from the prostitution of some other person, shares the earnings of, or receives subsidies from, another person who habitually indulges in prostitution.
The Child Protection Act 2005
It is an offence according to this Act if
a) Akes or permits to be taken or to make, any indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child
b) Distributes or shows such indecent photograph or