32 Ontario Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017 (CYFSA) Everyone, including members of the public and professionals who work closely with children, is required by law to report suspected cases of child abuse or neglect. Despite the provisions of any other Act, if a person, including a person who performs professional or official duties with respect to children, has reasonable grounds to suspect one of the following, the person shall immediately report the suspicion and the information on which it is based to a society: 1) The child has suffered physical harm, inflicted by the person having charge of the child or caused by or resulting from that person’s, a) failure to adequately care for, provide for, supervise or protecting the child, or b) pattern of neglect in caring for, providing for, supervising or protecting the child. 2) There is a risk that the child is likely to suffer physical harm inflicted by the person having charge of the child or caused by or resulting from that person’s. a) failure to adequately care for, provide for, supervise or protect the child, or b) pattern of neglect in caring for, providing for supervising or protecting the child. 3) The child has been sexually abused or sexually exploited by the person having charge of the child or by another person where the person having charge of the child knows or should know of the possibility of sexual abuse or sexual exploitation and fails to protect the child. 4) There is a risk that the child is likely to be sexually molested or sexually exploited as described in paragraph 3. 4.1) The child has been sexually exploited as a result of being subjected to child sex trafficking. 4.2) There is a risk that the child is likely to be sexually exploited as a result of being subjected to child sex trafficking. 5) The child requires treatment to cure, prevent or alleviate physical harm or suffering and the child’s parent or the person having charge of the child does not provide the treatment or access to the treatment, or, where the child is incapable of consenting to the treatment under the Health Care Consent Act, 1996, refuses or is unavailable or unable to consent to, the treatment on the child’s behalf. 6) The child has suffered emotional harm, demonstrated by serious, a) anxiety, b) depression, c) withdrawal, d) self-destructive or aggressive behaviour, or e) delayed development, and there are reasonable ground to believe that the emotional harm suffered by the child results from the actions, failure to act or pattern of neglect on the part of the child’s parent or the person having charge of the child.
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