One missing child is too much! In 2019 alone, 40,425 kids were reported missing in Canada. Thankfully, most are found safe and promptly returned to their parent/guardian. There were 122 reported parental abductions and a massive 30,000 reported runaways. These youths are such a high risk of sexual exploitation; in fact 1 in 3 of these vulnerable youths report having traded sex for money, drugs and other things.
Many trafficked and exploitation victims are completely unaware this is even happening to them. Often times, the assailant is someone known to the victim. They could be a friend, family member, neighbor, teacher, acquaintance ect; victims are often manipulated the into thinking they're not being trafficked at all. Human trafficking is a 150 billion dollar industry globally. For a business like this to exist and thrive, it absolutely takes support from at least a few powerful and/or influential people. It's time to admit that this does happen in Canada and startcleaning out our own back yard. Here's a few of Canada's serious offences committed by trusted and/or high status members of our society.
Peter Nygard, a Canadian fashion mogul who is currently residing in Winnipeg, Manitoba currently has a class action lawsuit against him for allegedly sexually assaulting 57 women. Nygard's son has also recently alleged that he was forced to have intercourse with a prostitute when he was just 14 years old. The class action lawsuit has been issued a stay of proceedings due to an FBI raid In February 2020, at Nygard's New York offices in connection to sex trafficking. Currently no charges have been laid.
Christopher Charles Ingvaldson was a teacher at a prestigious British Columbia school. In 2010, Ingvaldson pleaded guilty to accessing and possessing child pornography; he received in connection with an international pedophile ring bust, that was run through Facebook, saw 11 members of the ring arrested, from Canada, UK and Australia. He was sentenced to 6 months in jail and 2 years probation. He is currently a free man and has been taken off the sex offender registry.
Peter Dalglish is an elite Canadian who is currently serving jail time in a Nepal prison for sexually assaulting two boys aged 11 and 14 years old. They were rescued from Dalglish's home in 2018. Dalglish was named a member of the Order of Canada for his humanitarian work in 2016. He founded Street Kids International charity, served as a senior advisor to the UN Habitat in Afghanistan, the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency response in Liberia, he worked with World Health Organization and worked as Chief Technical Advisor under the UN Child Labour Programme in Nepal.
Back in 2013, Project Spade garnered 348 arrests and saved 386 children from sexual abuse. It was an international child sex abuse and pornography ring bust. 108 arrests were made in Canada , with 58 being from Toronto and 24 of the children saved were Canadian. They confiscated 45 terabytes of child pornography off of the computers used to access the files. An officer had stated, "this is the equivalent to 1,500 CN Towers", if you were to stack each picture on top each other. Among those arrested were, 3 foster parents, 6 law enforcement personnel, 9 doctors and nurses, 9 priests and pastors, 32 volunteers and 40 teachers. Although investigators did their very best, only 15 charges came out of this.
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