Protection of children and other vulnerable persons from harm.

• Author: Mildon, Marsha
• Position: News and notes - Brief Article

This package of reforms in Bill C-20 will help safeguard children and other vulnerable persons from sexual exploitation, abuse, and neglect. It will also better protect victims and witnesses in criminal justice proceedings. Proposed steps to modernize the

Criminal Code include:

* strengthening child pornography provisions by narrowing existing defences of child pornography to a single defence of "public good"

* expanding the current definition of written child pornography

* creating a new category of sexual exploitation to protect those between 14 and 18 years of age, and

* increasing maximum sentences for child-related offences, including sexual...