Police nab 22 in child porn sweep
Police nab 22 in Canada's largest ever child porn sweep
Agence France-Presse
OTTAWA -- A police sweep overnight nabbed 22 people in what officials authorities called Tuesday Canada's largest coordinated child pornography investigation ever.
The Ontario Provincial Police and 18 municipal police services from across the province took part in the probe that began in January, revealing computers here being used to swap images online of child sexual abuse.
Twenty-five search warrants were executed in 16 communities across Ontario on Monday, including Toronto and Ottawa, resulting in 73 criminal charges of possession and distribution of child pornography being laid.
Detective Staff Sergeant Frank Goldschmidt, the Ontario police child pornography task force coordinator, said the arrests represented "the largest coordinated child pornography sweep in the history of Ontario," and of Canada.
Twenty men, one woman, and one teen face charges in the case, officials said.
Additional arrests are pending and the police investigation is continuing.
"Every image of child pornography represents the irrefutable evidence of a child being brutalized and it's not just about impersonal abstract images," Ontario police Commissioner Julian Fantino told reporters.
"The exploitation of children by whatever means is appalling unconscionable and a particularly vile crime."
"The production and distribution of pornography, the luring of young people by pedophiles for their own deviant purposes, and the proliferation of Internet sites where pictures of just about every imaginable kind of abuse of children including infants can be accessed by anyone is a major concern to police agencies worldwide," he commented.
The sweep should serve "as a very loud wakeup call to all those who commit these horrific crimes ... you can run, but you can't hide," he said.
From April 1 to December 31, 2007, the OPP child pornography task force investigated 1,515 cases and laid 539 related charges, authorities noted.
Canadian and US police said in a new study they traced pornographic images involving children to more than 205,000 unique computer addresses in Canada.
Agence France-Presse
OTTAWA -- A police sweep overnight nabbed 22 people in what officials authorities called Tuesday Canada's largest coordinated child pornography investigation ever.
The Ontario Provincial Police and 18 municipal police services from across the province took part in the probe that began in January, revealing computers here being used to swap images online of child sexual abuse.
Twenty-five search warrants were executed in 16 communities across Ontario on Monday, including Toronto and Ottawa, resulting in 73 criminal charges of possession and distribution of child pornography being laid.
Detective Staff Sergeant Frank Goldschmidt, the Ontario police child pornography task force coordinator, said the arrests represented "the largest coordinated child pornography sweep in the history of Ontario," and of Canada.
Twenty men, one woman, and one teen face charges in the case, officials said.
Additional arrests are pending and the police investigation is continuing.
"Every image of child pornography represents the irrefutable evidence of a child being brutalized and it's not just about impersonal abstract images," Ontario police Commissioner Julian Fantino told reporters.
"The exploitation of children by whatever means is appalling unconscionable and a particularly vile crime."
"The production and distribution of pornography, the luring of young people by pedophiles for their own deviant purposes, and the proliferation of Internet sites where pictures of just about every imaginable kind of abuse of children including infants can be accessed by anyone is a major concern to police agencies worldwide," he commented.
The sweep should serve "as a very loud wakeup call to all those who commit these horrific crimes ... you can run, but you can't hide," he said.
From April 1 to December 31, 2007, the OPP child pornography task force investigated 1,515 cases and laid 539 related charges, authorities noted.
Canadian and US police said in a new study they traced pornographic images involving children to more than 205,000 unique computer addresses in Canada.
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