So far in the 21st century nearly a third of a billion children have been sexually abused, most of them multiple times, some thousands of times. 6 out of 7 are girls. Anything you can do to get this message to as many people as possible will help save abused children all over the world, and maybe even some of the abusers. Please read "Save A Child from Sexual Abuse by 3:15 PM" under "First Time Visitor?" May God bless you and anoint this ministry.
Everyday thousands of children are being sexually abused. You can stop the abuse of at least one child by simply praying. You can possibly stop the abuse of thousands of children by forwarding the link in First Time Visitor? by email, Twitter or Facebook to every Christian you know. Save a child or lots of children!!!! Do Something, please!
3:15 PM prayer in brief:
Pray for God to stop 1 child from being molested today.
Pray for God to stop 1 child molestation happening now.
Pray for God to rescue 1 child from sexual slavery.
Pray for God to save 1 girl from genital circumcision.
Pray for God to stop 1 girl from becoming a child-bride.
If you have the faith pray for 100 children rather than one.
Published Jul 22, 2026 • Last updated 1 day ago • 1 minute read
The OPP and North Bay Police Service were one of 25 police agencies involved in this investigation July 23,2026Photo by FILE PHOTO /jpg, EL, apsmc
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A 33-year-old Redbridge man and a 22-year-old North Bay man are among 63 individuals charged in a provincial investigation in child sexual abuse and exploitation on the Internet. Some of the accused cannot be identified due to a court-issued publication ban.
Project Time, is a joint initiative between the Ontario Provincial Police and 25 police services, including North Bay Police Service.
Officers charged 63 individuals and 51 victims were identified in the fight against online child exploitation.
“As part of Project Time, a coordinated provincial effort to identify and apprehend those who prey on children, investigators targeted individuals making, possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material. Victims were also identified and safeguarded, with appropriate support provided to those impacted,” according to OPP.
Project Time results include:
51 victims identified
63 individuals arrested
213 charges laid
814 electronic devices seized
264 criminal investigations conducted
154 ongoing investigations
Two accused were in a position of trust and authority in their communities
Eight accused were repeat offenders
“Project Time is a testament to the dedication and commitment of law enforcement professionals across Ontario and Canada to protect children from exploitation,” stated OPP Detective Staff Sergeant Tara Clark, Provincial Internet Child Exploitation Strategy Lead. “The results of this operation demonstrate the power of collaboration, the strength of the Provincial Internet Child Exploitation Strategy and the relentless pursuit of those who prey on the most vulnerable.”
“Members of the Provincial Internet Child Exploitation Strategy recognize that law enforcement cannot combat these crimes alone. Parents, educators, child advocacy organizations, government and technology providers are essential in keeping children safe,” according to OPP.
The Provincial Internet Child Exploitation Strategy police partners have noted a significant rise in reports of online child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse material in recent years.
Anyone with any information related to child sexual exploitation should contact their local police or report it to cybertip.ca.
SickKids doctor charged with possessing, accessing child sex abuse material, police say
Dilan Dissanayake, 44, placed on immediate leave, hospital says
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Dilan Dissanayake, 44, of Toronto, has been charged with possessing and accessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material. Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children says he was placed on immediate leave once the hospital became aware of the investigation. (Hospital for Sick Children)
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A doctor at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children has been charged with possessing and accessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material, police say.
Dilan Dissanayake, 44, of Toronto, was arrested and charged Tuesday, Toronto police said in a news release.
Police said in the release that its internet child exploitation unit launched an investigation after a person allegedly used an electronic device to access and download child sexual abuse and exploitation material.
In February 2026, police carried out search warrants at the hospital and at a private home, seizing several electronic devices, including a work computer.
"At this time, investigators have found no evidence that the child sexual abuse and exploitation material is connected to his practice as a physician," police said in the release.
Dissanayake was due to appear in a Toronto courtroom on Tuesday. The charges against him have not yet been tested in court.
Hospital 'deeply upset and dismayed' by news
In a statement posted to its website, the hospital said it is "deeply upset and dismayed" by the news and it condemns the behaviour alleged by police. It said the safety and well-being of its patients, families and staff is its highest priority.
"SickKids has not been notified of any risk to patients and families, and the Toronto Police Service has indicated there is no evidence that the charges are connected to Dr. Dissanayake's medical practice," the hospital said in the statement.
Dissanayake was placed on immediate leave once the hospital became aware of the investigation, it said.
The hospital said families of patients who received care from Dissanayake can contact its patient relations team with any concerns.
Ontario's College of Physicians and Surgeons has suspended Dissanayake's medical licence, according to its website.
The site lists the charges against him, as well as the conditions of his release on bail, which include a ban on being alone with any minors aside from his own children.
A spokesperson for the college told The Canadian Press the organization's inquiries committee can impose a suspension on an interim basis without notice when a doctor is likely to "expose patients to harm or injury, and urgent intervention is needed."
Liberal party adopts motion to ban kids under 16 from social media
By The Staff The Canadian Press
Posted April 11, 2026 1:33 pm
Updated April 12, 2026 10:56 am
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Federal Liberals voted in favour of setting 16 as the age of majority for Canadians to be able to use social media accounts.
Party grassroots passed a non-binding resolution Saturday morning for the restriction and to place the onus on social media companies to enforce it.
Quebec MP Rachel Bendayan, who presented the idea to her caucus and championed it at the convention, said prolonged social media use can be harmful to the mental health of young Canadians.
She said social media companies need to be more accountable and stop allowing young children to use technologies designed to be addictive.
Bendayan also said she was astonished by how many youth she personally spoke with who support the idea.
“I was very surprised to see so many teenagers and people within the age group I was targeting tell me they were in favour of this resolution, in part because they felt they have no choice but to be on social media,” she told reporters after the vote.
“So it’s not a ban for a ban’s sake. It’s something that would change the way society operates at the moment.”
Canadians support social media ban for youth: poll
The resolution sets out party policy, but because it’s not binding on the governing party, it won’t directly lead to a ban.
Carter Scott, a 17-year-old Liberal attending his first convention, said he’s frustrated that young people didn’t get a chance to chime into the debate on the convention floor this weekend.
And he says he doesn’t trust the social media platforms to handle the data used to verify a person’s age, such as government IDs or facial recognition.
“There has been a significant risk and significant concerns where this policy has been introduced is if there’s been a breach — as is likely — of the data, where thousands of Canadians — young people, seniors, whoever — could have their data leaked,” Scott said.
Bendayan said this is just the start of a wider conversation about the policy position, including ensuring it does not produce privacy risks. She said Canadians should hear more from young people, teachers, psychologists and medical experts about the issue.
“We’re in the early stages of having this debate and what today did was kick off what I hope will be a national conversation.”
An Angus Reid poll from March suggested widespread support for the idea.
The polling agency found as much as three-quarters of Canadians support a full ban on social media use for Canadians under the age of 16. Because it was an online survey and not a probability telephone sample, it does not carry a margin of error.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said last month that the idea “merits an open and considered debate in Canada,” although he does not have a settled view on it yet and said there were good points on both sides.
Australia became the first country last December to create a law enforcing age limits on accounts, and introduced fines for social media companies found non-compliant.
The Liberals also adopted a similar resolution on Saturday to set age restrictions for chat bots that run on artificial intelligence over similar concerns about the technology affecting the mental health of youth.
It says the government should limit use of “all AI chatbots and other potentially harmful forms of AI interaction” to Canadians over the age of 16.
That includes popular software such as ChatGPT that people now commonly turn to for advice or even have full conversations with.
A new report from Statistics Canada found that despite a 16 per cent year-over-year decrease, the rate of online child sexual exploitation has increased by 347 per cent in Canada since 2014.
The report, based on data from 2023-24, found that police services from across the country reported a total of 16,905 incidents of online child sexual exploitation (OCSE) in a single year.
The StatCan report released Tuesday also found that the number of reported online sexual offences against children increased by 182 per cent in a 10-year timespan.
What is considered online child sexual exploitation?
The term OSCE includes a “wide range” of Criminal Code offences that are grouped into two categories, StatCan said, providing the following definitions:
Online sexual offences against children – Examples include luring, inviting to sexual touching and non-consensual distribution of intimate images involving victims aged 17 years and younger; and
Online child sexual abuse and exploitation material offences – Formerly known as child pornography offences.
Police-reported incidents in 2023-24
According to the report, the rate of online sexual offences against children continued to rise in 2024, as police-reported incidents of the offences rose by 43 per cent in a year, mainly due to a “sharp” increase in the number of “luring incidents.”
“Consistent with previous years, luring — the offence of communicating with a child or youth online for the purpose of committing a sexual offence — accounted for almost three-quarters (74 per cent) of all police-reported online sexual offences against children in 2024,” the StatCan report said.
The report called it the “highest rate on record since comparable data became available in 2014.”
Majority of OSCE victims were girls
The rate of police-reported online sexual exploitation was the highest for girl victims, the report found. Out of the 1,649 children and youth victims of the offences in 2024, three-quarters or 78 per cent were girls.
The report also found that the rate of reported online sexual offences against children was almost four times higher for girls than boys.
However, the report added that there was a drop in the number of online child sexual abuse and exploitation material incidents reported to police in 2024 from the previous year by 26 per cent, driving the overall rate of incidents to fall. This was partially due to more cases – current and historical – being brought forward to the authorities by specialized provincial or federal internet child exploitation police units.
Methodology
The report is based on a Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR) that collects data from criminal incidents that were reported to the Canadian authorities and examines the incidents, focusing on the characteristics of the OSCE incidents, victims and accused persons.
The variations in the rates of incidents between years may be due to differences in recognition, reporting and investigation of the incidents, rather than changes in occurrence.
It was just 13 years ago when Amanda Todd shocked the world with her suicide, which she blamed squarely on sextortion. In the last four years, 38 teens have suicided in the USA because of sextortion. It hardly even gets reported anymore.
Sextortion scams led 38 US teens to die by suicide over five years: ‘I have yr nudes and everything needed to ruin your life’
Thirty-eight teenage boys in the US have died by suicide since 2021 after falling victim to “sextortion” scammers, a top cybercrimes investigator has told The Post.
Two networks have been identified as the main ones behind the sick schemes: Nigeria’s Yahoo Boys, who do it for profit, and the US-Europe-centered 764 gang, who are, more worryingly, sexual sadists, according to Paul Raffile, who has personally investigated many of the suicides.
“These criminals can add 100 kids [per] Instagram account and hope that 30 accept the friend request and hope that 10 actually engage with them. So it’s really a numbers game,” Raffile told The Post, adding the Nigerian operation has thousands of members.
Michigan teen Jordan DeMay, 17, committed suicide in 2022 after he was sextorted by two Nigerian brothers, who were later extradited to the US and sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Waylon Scheffer of Montana committed suicide in 2022 after the 16-year-old was tormented by a sextortion scam.
Courtesy of Jason Scheffer
“Law enforcement needs to get ahead of this before teen suicides, not after.”
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said in May that it receives almost 100 reports of financial sextortion a day and was then aware of 36 suicides since 2021. The number of reports they receive tripled between 2022 to 2024 to 33,000 a year, according to their statistics.
The FBI warns that it has interviewed victims as young as 8 and sextortion affects children of both genders and all socio-economic groups.
Disgusting scammers share screenshots of their plots to celebrate victimizing American children, and to instruct others on how the scam works.
Network Contagion Research Institute
Raffile says all the suicides he has looked into link back to Yahoo Boys, also known as BM Boys (for blackmail).
The network “bombs” American teens with fake accounts pretending to be flirtatious female peers, using sophisticated tactics to then coerce their victims into sending illicit photos.
They then demand money, first in a single payment and then more, while threatening to release the photos they have been sent.
The African scammers demand money via Cash App or gift cards, Raffile said. In fact, he noted how scams exploded in the fourth quarter of 2021, after Cash App unveiled teen accounts.
BM Boys, short for blackmail, congregate openly online and brag about the flashy wares they purchased with scammed money.
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“Cash App was the first of the peer-to-peer payment platforms to roll out teen accounts. That’s exactly when they started to get targeted by these international, financially motivated criminals,” Raffile said.
Cash App did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
A 2024 report by the Network Contagion Research Institute found Instagram was the most common platform for sextortion schemes to take place, followed by Snapchat.
A spokesperson for Instagram’s parent company, Meta, told The Post they work with law enforcement and “have spent years understanding how [criminals] operate so we can develop the right protections.” Snapchat did not respond to a request for comment.
That report also tracked the brazen way Yahoo Boys coordinate to target a victim, share tactics on creating fake social media profiles, discuss AI tools, and workshop blackmail scripts — referred to as “BM format.”
A script circulated online among Yahoo Boys shows scammers how to lure American teen boys into sending illicit photos. They are then extorted for money, usually sent via Cash App or in gift cards, said cyber crimes expert Raffile.
Popular, American-based social media networks like YouTube are scamming channels where Nigerian sextortionists share tactics.
Network Contagion Research Institute
One script shared among scammers on Scribd suggested introductory questions like, “What do you like to do for fun?” before the scammers are shown how to entice the victim into sharing explicit photos.
Once obtained, they write, “Hey I have ur nudes and everything needed to ruin your life.”
“Please stop,” one victim wrote back with tearful emojis in a screenshot reviewed by The Post, before the scammer heartlessly fired back: “I am gonna make sure all of your friends get your s–t and I am never gonna unsend them until you pay me bro.”
“Stop you’re scaring me, please stop, I’m so scared,” the victim responded.
Bryce was a beloved honor roll student and star athlete with an “infectious smile,” his father Adam told The Post.
courtesy of Adam Tate
Most of this information was, shockingly, posted for anyone to see.
“They were called Yahoo blackmailing groups on Facebook. They were public. And they were sharing the pretty young girls’ images to catfish people with,” said Raffile.
Arrests for African sextortion scammers are extremely rare; Raffile estimated there have been only three or four. In 2023, two Nigerian brothers — Samuel and Samson Ogoshi, 22 and 20 — were extradited to the US and sentenced to 17 years for their role in running the sextortion ring connected to the suicide of 17-year-old Michigan teen Jordan DeMay.
Samuel Ogoshi, one of two Nigerian brothers sentenced to 17 years over a “sextortion” scheme.
Californian Jonathan Kassi, 25, was sentenced to 18 months for his role in the 2022 suicide of Ryan Last, 17, another sextortion victim. Authorities say Kassi was working as a money mule for Ivory Coast scammers who have not been indicted.
On November 6, West Virginia honor roll student Bryce Tate, 15, became the latest victim to take his life just three hours after scammers contacted him pretending to be a local 17-year-old girl, according to law enforcement and family members who spoke to The Post.
After The Post’s coverage of Bryce Tate’s horrific story gained widespread traction, on Tuesday a bill was introduced to make sextortion a federal crime.
“When these offenders are eventually caught by law enforcement, whether here or abroad, our nation’s prosecutors struggle to appropriately charge them, as there are currently no federal laws that explicitly address sextortion.
“My commonsense, bipartisan ‘Stop Sextortion Act’ would federally criminalize sextortion and ensure these heinous criminals are finally brought to justice,” One of the bill’s sponsors, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, told The Post.
The Nigerian scammers are brazen to the point of making memes mocking their victims — referred to as “clients” — and celebrating their success in depraved criminal acts.
Mississippi teen Walker Montgomery, 16, committed suicide in a story nearly identical to Bryce’s, after he was contacted on Instagram by a “girl” who turned out to be a Nigerian scam artist.
Jonathan Kassi, 25 of California, was sentenced to 18 months for his role in the 2022 suicide of Ryan Last, 17, another sextortion victim. Authorities say he was a money mule for Ivory Coast scammers who have not been indicted.
San Jose Police Department
In one video reviewed by The Post, a scammer showed off a new Mercedes-Benz he bought with money extorted from American teens. Other videos featured scammers dancing around in piles of cash.
Other scammers shared screenshots on social media of the torment they are inflicting.
Federal law enforcement appears to have put more resources into domestic sextortion rings — namely the online “terrorist” outfit 764, described in US Justice Department press statements as a decentralized “criminal organization of Nihilistic Violent Extremists (NVE)” that uses online channels to share “extreme gore media” and child sex abuse material with juveniles.
In January, British 764 member Cameron Finnigan, 19, was jailed for six years after pleading guilty to encouraging suicide, possessing a terrorism manual and possessing indecent images of a child.
Counter Terrorism Policing South East
Unlike the Yahoo Boys, 764’s motivation appears sexual rather than financial. 764 also tend to target girls and LGBTQ people, rather than boys, said Raffile.
Individuals connected with the group conduct “coordinated extortions” of teenagers and “blackmail them to comply with the group’s demands” which often include, “self-mutilation, online and in-person sexual acts, harm to animals, sexual exploitation of siblings and others, acts of violence, threats of violence, suicide, and murder,” a US Attorney’s Office press release from November said about the group.
“Their main aim is to traumatize you,” a young woman who claimed she was victimized by 764 told Wired magazine in 2024. “They want to make you suffer. And for you to take your own life. They really are very sadistic people.”
The 764 group — which Meta says is banned from its platforms, along with associated entities — emerged in 2021, founded by a bullied 15-year-old dropout named Bradley Cadenhead of Stephenville, Texas, who went by the online moniker “Felix.”
Nigerian scammers share instructional videos on how to torture American teenage boys into sending them money. The scammers claim its a one time payment, but the scam is intended to continue in perpetuity.
Network Contagion Research Institute
Cadenhead learned techniques of exploiting minors from a group on the decentralized site Discord, where people’s chat groups are private between members, according to the magazine.
764 are the first three digits of Cadenhead’s 76401 zip code. Cadenhead was a troubled and disruptive child, fascinated by gore and torture from an early age. When he was ten, his mother moved out and began “drinking a lot and partying,” she later told authorities.
“I stopped caring about everything,” Cadenhead later told probation officers, according to a 2024 Washington Post report.
For the BM Boys, scamming American teens is all fun and games, even for the 38 suicides that have occurred since 2021.
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Following a tip and a home search, Cadenhead was arrested in May 2023 and convicted of possessing child porn. He is currently serving an 80-year prison sentence.
“Very rarely do we get a chance to look evil in the face,” prosecutor Jett Smith told a judge at Cadenhead’s sentencing. “This may be one of those times.”
In one encounter he pressured a 10-year-old girl to send explicit photos of herself, according to the Washington Post.
US authorities have launched an aggressive campaign to reign in sextortion ring 764, but the Nigerians who are causing American teen boys to commit suicide are given free reign.
Memes like this phone screen with app icons, a search bar that says “Dm For Blackmailing Format” proliferate on Nigerian social media.
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Law enforcement estimates 764, which splintered into various offshoots following Cadenhead’s arrest, has thousands of members globally with hundreds being “hardcore” involved in the operation, according to Wired.
In April, two core members of the 764 network — Prasan Nepal, 20, of North Carolina and Leonidas Varagiannis, 21, an American living in Greece — were arrested and charged with operating an international child exploitation enterprise. Varagiannis is currently fighting extradition back to the US.
Cybercrimes experts and law enforcement say protecting teenagers from these scams starts at home with teens having social media accounts set to private and with parents educating their children about sextortion threats.
What’s even more important to know, one cop who spoke to The Post said, is that the scammers lie — they have no intention of ever transmitting the illicit photos. Echoing advice from the FBI, they said a teen who finds himself engaged with a scammer should immediately cease communication and alert their parents and law enforcement.
“We need awareness campaigns directed at this,” Raffile said. “If you know how a scam works, you’re far less likely to fall for it. And what’s happening in these financial sex extortion cases, it is the same red flags. It is the same scripted messages. It’s the same crime over and over and over again. It’s entirely predictable.”
