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Youth
Campaign against sexting in schools
“SEXTING IS PORN”

Eve-Emmanuelle CÉRÉ The awareness campaign will take place in Socio-Community Section of the Police
Translation Mona Rochon the Châteauguay police service territory high Department, assisted by CALACS staff and
schools, namely the Châteauguay Heritage school staff, will be on site to meet with the
On January 24th, the Châteauguay Police College, the Gabrielle-Roy, Howard S. Billings, youth. It should be noted that parents will be
Service launched it’s “SEXTING IS PORN” cam- Louis-Philippe-Paré and Marguerite-Bourgeois informed of this campaign through a letter
paign. Aimed especially at teens aged schools, as well as the Patriotes-de- issued by each school.
12 to 17, this campaign takes place in schools Beauharnois High School. “In total, it is
over two weeks, from late January to early estimated that nearly 5,000 young people— Several posters are also hung in the key
February. Educate, sensitize and equip not to mention their parents—will be affected areas of each school. The catchy visual tends
adolescents: these are the objectives of this by this campaign,” said the Châteauguay to emphasize the impact that the sending of a
campaign. Police Department. sex message can have, especially with the
emergence of social networks. An intimate
A sex message is a sexual, erotic, porno- It is thanks to an important partnership that and explicit photo can be quickly shared with-
graphic or explicit message that is sent this campaign has been made possible. The out the consent of the sender. It is therefore
electronically, most of the time from one Châteauguay Police Service has collaborated essential to make young people aware of the
mobile phone to another, via an email with the area’s school boards: des-Grandes- resources and tools available to them if such a
application. These messages can sometimes Seigneuries, de-la-Vallée-des-Tisserands, New situation arises.
even be found on social networks, for all eyes Frontier, as well as the Heritage College and
to see. The emergence of sexting is a real CALACS (Quebec coalition of sexual assault It is important to remember that the pro-
concern in the world of teenagers. In less than centres) to carry out this project. duction, possession, distribution of child
two years, the Châteauguay police service has The interventions are carried out in a tangi- pornography and non-consensual publication
already handled some thirty cases of child ble way in the schools. Officers from the of an intimate image are all criminal acts.n
pornography. February 7, 2018

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