The biggest impact it’s had on my life, has been my ability to trust people.
He was trusted and and this was normal.
This was our secret, I couldn’t tell anyone.
That moment of living my nightmare exists forever.
There are millions of unique pieces of child sexual abuse material online.
And that number grows every day.
The Times report reveals the internet seems to be overrun with images of child sexual abuse, so much so, they’re calling it an epidemic.
87% of victims are 11 or younger when the abuse begins.
56% are under 4 years old.
And reports of child sexual abuse material online continue to increase exponentially every year.
Child sexual abuse material is the worst kind of abuse. It’s images of twisted sexual desires against society’s most vulnerable people, children.
And when these images are posted online, survivors can never escape the trauma.
Worrying that someone has seen their video and will recognize them.
Facing the real danger that someone will find them in real life and continue to torment or physically harm them.
But the tool to help take down child sexual abuse material is in our hands. We just have to use it.
It’s called Project Arachnid.
An innovative technology created by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection that crawls the internet 24/7, scanning thousands of images a second and issuing thousands of notices per day to hosting companies to take down child sexual abuse material.
Identification of child sexual abuse material is carried out through image and video matching technology used by Project Arachnid and a global team of analysts.
Project Arachnid is completely free to use around the globe and even allows tech companies to search their own content to identify child sexual abuse material and take it down.
Since its launch, Project Arachnid has led to the removal of millions of images and videos of child sexual abuse material worldwide.
I am extremely grateful for the creation of Project Arachnid.
It will mean that the next generation of victims will never have to deal with the same traumas that we have all endured.
It made me believe in a future where victims of child exploitation could finally find justice and some closure.
The time is now. Join us to help rid the internet of child sexual abuse material so survivors can heal and live their lives in peace.
Learn more at projectarachnid.ca