Quinte Protects publishes a Safety Brief only when there is a significant, verifiable development worth a family's attention. Each one translates the reporting into plain language, separates established facts from broader patterns, and ends with practical lessons and official help routes.
Cybertip.ca is warning that offenders are using AI to create fake sexualized images of youth, sometimes from a profile picture alone. Parents need to know that a child does not have to send an intimate image to be threatened.
Read the Safety BriefStatistics Canada reported 16,905 police-reported online child sexual exploitation incidents in 2024. The overall rate dropped from 2023, but online sexual offences against children rose sharply, driven by a major increase in luring.
Read the Safety BriefA practical guide for Quinte families: child accounts, app settings, safer home Wi-Fi and Canadian DNS filtering—without pretending one tool can solve every online risk.
Read the Safety BriefStatistics Canada reports a long-term rise in police-reported online child sexual exploitation, while warning that police data captures only part of the harm. The practical lesson is to make recognition, disclosure and reporting easier before a crisis.
Read the Safety BriefAn Ontario-wide investigation shows the scale of online child sexual exploitation work and the importance of connecting reports, protecting victims and involving the right authorities.
Read the Safety BriefA Toronto Police investigation involving a Hamilton man, children in the Philippines and multiple international partners shows why livestreaming and coercion require an immediate, coordinated response.
Read the Safety BriefAI can make fake images look real. This parent guide explains the risk, how children can be harmed or cause harm, and the right steps when an image is shared or threatened.
Read the Safety BriefTwo international sextortion prosecutions show that an alleged offender can be thousands of kilometres away while the danger to a young person is immediate. Here is what happened, what the public record does not establish, and what Canadian families should do.
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