That's a wonderful question.
The number of prosecutions is actually going up. I believe in about 2012, Monsieur Villemure, the Harper government instituted a law that required what we call a positive obligation to report. If a service provider or a group like Facebook or Yahoo knew that this was occurring, they had to report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which would then send it to the RCMP.
This crime, I think, was happening much more than we ever want to acknowledge. When that law changed, we saw a spike. I don't have the statistics, but I've seen the graph. It's just like a mountain. It's just straight uphill because of how many more offences were being found.
It used to be that this type of offence was only discovered when somebody brought in their computer to a repair shop and someone stumbled upon it or somebody said they knew about somebody who was doing it. Now the vast majority of cases are coming through Internet luring. You do see where somebody says their child has been lured, but a lot of the cases are coming from.... One of the most significant cases I dealt with was luring from the Philippines. In that case, I can't remember if it was Facebook or Yahoo, but it told the authorities there was suspected child abuse. A child was being victimized for child sexual abuse material in exchange for money. That's how it came out.
I don't know.... I can't tell you whether this is occurring with more regularity. Internet luring is certainly occurring with more regularity and that's where an electronic device is used to commit a sexual offence. Now kids are having cell phones earlier and earlier.
What I can say is that we're seeing more and more of these cases come before the courts because people are starting to be more aware.