Child Sex Trafficking in Canada and How To Stop It
The new book from Cathy Peters, available soon
Child Sex Trafficking in Canada and How To Stop It
The new book from Cathy Peters, available soon
A modern equal society does not buy and sell women and children.
Cathy Peters raises awareness about the issue of human sex trafficking, sexual exploitation and child sex trafficking for the purpose of prostitution. She speaks and presents to politicians, police and the public.
Today’s slavery has low costs and huge profits; a trafficker can make hundreds of thousands of dollars per victim per year.
The average age of entry into prostitution is 12–14 years of age in Canada, although traffickers are targeting children as young as 8. There has been a dramatic increase in child exploitation along with the production and consumption of child pornography. Unregulated technology has increased the demand for commercially paid sex.
The biggest problem in Canada is that the public is unaware of the issue. Women, youth, children, the marginalized and vulnerable will become potential targets and victims unless we do something to stop it.
Be Amazing. Learn. Share. Alert.
Cathy Peters is a former inner city high school teacher and, since 2014, has made over 600 presentations to more than 20,000 people
She has received 14 Challenge Coins from Victoria, Kitimat, North Vancouver, Coquitlam, Richmond, Surrey, and Chilliwack RCMP detachments, RCMP HQ Counter Exploitation Unit, New Westminster Police Department after presenting at the Justice Institute, Federal Corrections, Delta, Abbotsford, and the Vancouver Police Department.
Cathy’s work was introduced in the BC Legislature and she was asked to three Federal Justice Committees on human trafficking. She has been a speaker to three MMIWG gatherings, numerous Indigenous groups, and had a booth at the July 2022 Assembly of First Nations Convention where she met hundreds of Indigenous leaders.
Cathy was nominated for an Order of BC Award and for the Carol Matusicky Distinguished Service to Families award. In 2022 she presented at the Global Summit Connecting to Protect: Addressing the Harms of Porn on Youth from a Public Health Perspective (University of Calgary) and presented at the first RCMP Human Trafficking webinar for law enforcement across Canada.
Cathy received a Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal for her anti-human trafficking advocacy work.
“Society and culture have come to a point where the most vulnerable are not being protected. Today’s youth, children, the vulnerable and marginalized are at a huge risk of early sexualization and sexual predation. They are aggressively targeted for sexual exploitation yet unaware of the insidious, coercive and manipulative tactics of the sex industry. As a society we have a moral obligation to address this exploitation immediately, resolutely and robustly. If we do not do so, the harm caused to future generations will be incalculable.” —Cathy Peters
Be Amazing Campaign Videos
Cathy presented an overview of sexual exploitation to Richmond families and youth. These videos were kindly produced by the Richmond RCMP.
Making a difference in the community
Cathy initiated public presentations in 2014 and has made hundreds of presentations to politicians, police, and the public, and more lately to police boards, school boards, frontline service providers, Indigenous groups, church groups, service clubs, chambers of commerce, justice committees, national summits, and has given interviews to magazines, radio programs, TV newscasts, podcasts, and newspapers.
Resources
The following items are available for download, or will direct you to an external website.
Harpreet Singh Podcast
RED 89.1FM Vancouver
Child Sex Trafficking is on the Rise in Canada
Article with Audio Interview
Kids Face Increased Threat of Luring and Sextortion Online
Article
Chilliwack’s children at risk for sex trafficking says B.C. anti-trafficking advocate
THE QUEEN’S
PLATINUM JUBILEE
MEDAL RECIPIENT
Cathy was honoured to receive the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal in 2022 for her anti-human trafficking advocacy work.
AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE MAY 2023
This is a book that should never have had to be written. But here we are.
It describes the progression of my experience learning about the sexual exploitation of children in Canada, concluding with specific strategies on how we can stop it. Each chapter peels back a deeper level of the issue.
Please help me stop this scourge. While this issue has taken decades for me to understand, hopefully this book will shorten the process for the reader. Anyone and everyone can make a difference. And we must.
Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline
24/7 Confidential Number: 1-833-900-1010
VictimLinkBC
24/7 Confidential, Multilingual Service Across BC
Call or Text: 1-800-563-0808
Email: VictimLinkBC@bc311.ca