
You can see Alison Crawford's in-depth report on The National on Monday, June 23. Next week on CBC's The National CBC News was given unprecedented access to an online child exploitation investigation in Moncton, N.B.

Chris Purchas, on secondment to the RCMP, recently illustrated the scope of the problem to CBC News by projecting a live, real-time map of Canada onto a screen at the NCECC. Red dots started to pop up immediately.

In 2012 alone, the RCMP's National Child Exploitation Co-ordination Centre identified more than 45,000 unique internet addresses where people viewed and shared images of children being sexually abused. At any given moment, police say hundreds of Canadians are looking at child pornography. The RCMP say the operation, the third of its kind in as many years, led to the rescue of five children from sexual exploitation and 150 people being charged or under investigation. Police in Halifax have announced the results of a months-long investigation into child pornography, Operation Snapshot 3. At the start of 2011 The Pirate Bay continues to.

As has become a tradition over the years, we present a list of the most visited BitTorrent sites of the new year. RCMP provide CBC with an inside look at the challenges of IDing sources of child pornography. Child porn arrests: Investigators must track moving targets.
