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Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Material (Making or Distributing)

One offence, every year it appears in the survey. Within sexual offences, all ages, Newfoundland and Labrador.

397 Reported to police 72 per 100,000 people
4 Led to a charge 1 in 100 reports
4 People charged
3 Found not to have happened Recorded from 2017 on.

Incidents reported each year, 2015 to 2025

0 100 200 300 4002015 — Someone charged: 22015 — No one charged: 32016 — Someone charged: 32016 — Solved another way: 22016 — No one charged: 222017 — Someone charged: 52017 — Solved another way: 62017 — No one charged: 472018 — Someone charged: 102018 — Solved another way: 92018 — No one charged: 512019 — Someone charged: 92019 — Solved another way: 122019 — No one charged: 1222020 — Someone charged: 42020 — Solved another way: 52020 — No one charged: 1072021 — Someone charged: 32021 — Solved another way: 32021 — No one charged: 1552022 — Someone charged: 22022 — Solved another way: 12022 — No one charged: 2402023 — Someone charged: 52023 — Solved another way: 32023 — No one charged: 2762024 — Someone charged: 32024 — Solved another way: 132024 — No one charged: 3842025 — Someone charged: 42025 — Solved another way: 162025 — No one charged: 377201520172019202120232025
Someone charged 4 Solved another way 16 No one charged 377

Each bar is the year's total reports. The segments show what happened: a charge was laid, the case was solved another way, or no one was charged. Figures beside each colour are for 2025.

5 in 2015, 397 in 2025. The highest year on record is 2024. A single year moving up or down is ordinary; the shape across the whole series is the part worth reading.

Year by year figures
YearIncidents reportedLed to a charge People chargedCharged per 100 reports Per 100,000 people Unfounded
2025 397 44 1 72 3
2024 400 32 1 73 12
2023 284 55 2 53 9
2022 243 22 1 46 10
2021 161 32 2 31 13
2020 116 44 3 22 9
2019 143 98 6 27 10
2018 70 107 14 13 8
2017 58 54 9 11 6
2016 27 33 11 5 —
2015 5 21 40 1 —

The last two columns are the ones to compare across years: they stay steady when the volume of reports changes, so a real shift shows up rather than being hidden by how many reports came in.

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