These trends are making the spread of child sex abuse worse, according to a child safety advocate – CTV

February 02, 2025

Ava says that one day she met a boy who she thought liked her.

He asked her to do a video chat. She agreed. But she did not agree for him to record the chat, which became sexual in nature, nor did she consent to him to then share the video.

The video spread like wildfire.

“I thought that this boy must really like me, but as I later found out this was very premeditated,” said Ava, who was 14 at the time and used a pseudonym to protect her identity. Ava shared her story through a video on the Canadian Centre for Child Protection’s website.

“He knew what he was doing, he recorded the video call and sent it to a friend who sent it to another friend who sent it to another friend and eventually it got sent to everyone on this website and then it was shared to other websites, porn sites, random pages from different countries,” she said.

She soon would spend much of her free time after school on her laptop.

Read more: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/how-a-charity-is-helping-child-sex-abuse-survivors-including-a-14-year-old-girl-trying-to-take-down-explicit-videos/

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