Canadian Children's Rights Council website shut down by false allegations of child pornography
November 29, 2007
The Canadian Children's Rights Council alleged the following which has not yet been proven in a civil and/or criminal court and is the subject of litigation initiated by the Canadian Children's Rights Council and our executive falsely reported as being a pedophile . The criminal aspect is mischief committed by the person making the false allegation. The civil is the damages and cost to change web hosting companies.
In February 2007, just before Valentines Day, an executive volunteer of the Canadian Children's Rights Council, started a website for his daughter using authorized web space allocated by the Canadian Children's Rights Council. The website, while being totally autonomous from our website was on web hosting space which is part of the web hosting package with one of the largest Internet web hosting companies in the world, 1 & 1 Internet Inc. of the USA.
The website contained a few pictures of the adult daughter taken when she was a child and a valentines greeting without any personal information other than the first and last name of the daughter whom had already had provided substantial personal information on the social network open to the world called Facebook.
A "Nude" picture was on the website. The picture is of a toddler taken from the back/side with the baby standing with her diaper around her feet. The only possible "bare" area was a tiny portion of her bottom since both her bottom and her chest were blocked out in orange in the picture displayed on that internet website.
This picture below is the actual picture as shown on that website which included the orange block-outs as shown, although we are of the opinion that they aren't even needed. If you are a member of the media and wish to use the picture below, please contact us. We will note your contact information and, in most cases, provide permission to use the photo in your publication.
Largest American web hosting company 1and1.com said this picture is child pornography. This is the original picture as you see it which included the orange block-outs as shown.
Service to that website was terminated without notice and a false explanation was provided by the customer service of the Internet web hosting company. Days later, they finally revealed that they had a phone call from a woman who stated she was the ex-wife of one the executive of the Canadian Children's Rights Council falsely claiming that the executive is a pedophile and had put child porn on the website in question.
The Internet webhosting company had terminated service, locked the website content and reported it to the FBI. They had not looked at the website.
When they finally admitted why they shut down the website and all other websites in the web hosting package including the website of the Canadian Children's Rights Council, they were asked to view the website in question. The company had a policy of shutting down websites first and not reviewing them, leaving these websites to be viewed by police who would determine if the content was child porn as defined by the criminal justice system.
The web hosting company then claimed that their 20 page contract stated that they could shut down any websites without notice for any reason whatsoever. They had such a policy to "protect children from sexual exploitation".
The Canadian Children's Rights Council fully supports the reporting of real child porn and child abuse and has passed on such reports when received immediately to national and international police services.
We support Cypertips.ca and have provided information about them to every person who has had contact with us regarding a possible incident of child sexual exploitation.
The Cybertips.ca website stated on November 29, 2007 "Since launching Cybertip.ca in September 2002, the tipline has forwarded reports to law enforcement that have resulted in 27 arrests and the removal of as many as 2100 websites."
We wonder about the extent of the problem and the effectiveness of methods used to fight child sexual exploitation in Canada and internationally. Why with 2100 websites reported has there been only 27 arrests in 5 years? What was the criteria for the websites?
We estimate that over 50,000 children in Manitoba are suffering from Parental Alienation Syndrome, a form of child abuse. Why aren't there statistics from that government about this important form of child abuse. Why isn't the Manitoba government doing something? This is a major children's mental health issue. Why doesn't the government provide no charge lawyers to these child victims and their parents that are the victims of Parental Alienation for the purpose of stopping this form of child abuse? The provincial governments do supply lawyers at no cost to parents for the purpose of collecting child financial support as ordered by the court but they don't go after parents disobeying parenting time orders made by court or negotiated in separation agreements by divorcing or never married parents.