KINSA has responded swiftly to the story that made headline news yesterday, wherein for the first time in Canadian legal history, a father was accused of and sentenced for child sexual abuse in real time of his own daughter.
December 21, 2007Disgusting sentence for abusive father
December 20, 2007Defendant dad in child molestation case gets 20 months in jail, 3 years of probation
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Paul Gillespie reports that the training sessions at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology with investigators from the Romanian National Police went very well. The sessions, encompassing the Computer Facilitated Sexual Exploitation of Children Course, ran from December 3rd to 7th, and offered presentations on:
* Victim management and interviewing techniques * Offender typology * Open source intelligence * Image analysis * Undercover operations * Note taking, securing evidence, case preparation * Prosecuting offenders and legal issues * Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS)
On December 8th, the National Post featured an excellent article describing the training sessions and participants:
For the sake of childrenCanadian police help lead the fight against child abuse on the Internetby Adrian Humphreys, National Post
The mournful photograph of a nine-year-old girl being sexually abused is unavoidably large, projected some two metres high at the front of a classroom before mercifully disappearing.
None of the men in the audience flinch.
The lecturer takes a quick sip of coffee before speaking.
"Be prepared for a lot of disappointment," says Detective Constable Warren Bulmer, a member of the Toronto police's pioneering Child Exploitation Section.
"Because you have to be extremely dedicated to look at these pictures day-in and day-out, knowing that there is probably nothing you can do to help."
Read the entire article here.
In late November, Manitoba introduced legislation that could amend the province’s Child and Family Services Act to expand the definition of child abuse to encompass child pornography. On December 3, the Globe and Mail responded with the editorial “A bill too farâ€.
In turn, Paul Gillespie has responded with the following letter to the editor:
Your editorial, A Bill Too Far (Dec. 3), rightly points out child pornography and its production are among society’s greatest evils. You wrongly conclude, however, that Manitoba’s proposed legislation goes too far.
Fear mongers raised the child-in-the-bath bogus argument when child pornography legislation was introduced in 1993. The argument didn’t hold water then either, precisely because it is so easy to tell the difference between sinister and innocent imagery.
In the entire 14-year history of the legislation no one can point to persecution of parents taking candid photos of kids in the bath. The Internet is a wonderful tool but it is also a place with dark corners where evil lurks. Bills like the one introduced in Manitoba take a small step toward shining a little sunshine into these dark corners – and a little sunshine is a great disinfectant.
Paul Gillespie, CEOKids’ Internet Safety Alliance
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