I can never understand why the average citizen doesn’t throw up when they hear this stuff. “This is a societal need to do better than we’re doing. There were 622 Canadians charged with child pornography in 2013, up from 442 in 2009, according to Statistics Canada. Images of children in older age categories dropped or held steady from the previous year. The data marks the first time that the age category from newborn to 8 accounted for more than half of the material Cybertip.ca analyzes. “If your deviance is pedophilia, it’s not hard to imagine that people want to dig deeper into those trenches and seek out deeper and darker content and material to satisfy their sexual deviance as time progresses.” “It continues to shock me,” says Signy Arnason, director of Cybertip.ca. Those images accounted for 56 per cent of the 26,886 inventory of images Cybertip.ca analysts documented last year, a seven per cent jump from 2012-2013.Įven more disturbing, the data shows 73 per cent of the images of young victims depicted sex acts that included “bondage” and “torture.” That figure was up 12 per cent over the previous year.
“We have heard anecdotal reports that many grow up to keep their own bachas, perpetuating the revolving door of abuse.WINNIPEG-Sexualized images of children under the age of 9, most depicting explicit sexual acts, represent the largest and fastest-growing category in Canada’s underground child pornography trade, according to exclusive data obtained by the Star from the Canadian Centre for Child Protection.Īnd their abusers, say experts, are overwhelmingly family and friends.Ĭypertip.ca, a national, non-profit tip line run by the centre that gathers and investigates alleged child pornography online, last year catalogued more than 15,000 images from the Internet of children up to 8 years old, according to the data. “In the absence of any services to recover or rehabilitate boys who are caught in this horrendous abuse, it’s hard to know what happens to these children,” said Charu Lata Hogg, a London-based fellow at think tank Chatham House. In turn, many teen victims are said to grow up to have young boy lovers of their own, repeating the cycle of abuse. Bacha bazi results in fear among the children and a feeling of revenge and hostility develop in their mind.” “Such victims suffer from stress and a sort of distrust, hopelessness and pessimistic feeling. “The victims of bacha bazi suffer from serious psychological trauma as they often get raped,” AIHRC’s report said. Many of them are kidnapped and sometimes desperate poverty drives their families to sell them to abusers.
The move comes after an AFP report last year revealed the Taliban was exploiting bacha bazi, one of the most egregious violations of human rights in the country, to mount deadly insider attacks in the volatile south.īeautiful boys: bacha bazi remains ingrained in #afghan power circles #childabuse /1bXBlm4sWeâ Afghanistan Today August 26, 2014īachas are typically aged between 10 and 18. It’s a centuries old practice in Afghanistan known as “bacha bazi” and in recent years it’s made a resurgence.Īfghanistan this week announced it is set to criminalise bacha bazi with a slew of stringent punishments laid out for the first time in a revised penal code. They are referred to as “bachas” and used as dancers at private parties by powerful warlords, commanders, politicians and other members of the elite who keep them as a symbol of authority and affluence and often sexually exploit them. The boys, typically aged from 10-18, are coerced or abducted from the streets, then dressed in women’s clothes and forced to dance as entertainment. Rich and powerful men have been prowling the streets of Afghanistan in search of poor and orphaned boys to use as sex slaves and entertainment for centuries.
THEY look for young boys who have nothing.