Trail of a Sex Tourist: Canada's Limited Success in Pursuing Pedophiles
Catalogue Number: CTV446
Producer: CTV
Subject: Criminal Justice & Law, Social Issues
Language: English
Grade Level: Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2009
Running Time: 20
Canadians travelling abroad to have sex with children is an abhorrent and shocking offence, punishable under Canada's Criminal Code. But are some Canadians getting away with this crime?
Canada's so-called child sex-tourism law is supposed to punish Canadians who travel overseas to have sex with children. It's a law that has been on the books since 1997, but in more than a decade only three Canadians have been convicted. W5 takes an in-depth look at the unprecedented international investigation and arrest of Donald Bakker - Canada's first conviction under the law, and asks why Canadian authorities aren't doing more to catch its pedophiles overseas.
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