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TORONTO - A former Scout leader and school teacher is facing numerous sexual assault charges involving young boys. Toronto police said the alleged victims were between the ages of 11 and 15. The assaults allegedly took place between 1965 and 1979. On Friday, police arrested Norman Neil McLeod, 71, and charged him with 11 counts of indecent assault on a male, eight counts of gross indecency and assault. (CTV) MORE: Historic sex assaults |
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ORILLIA - The OPP's child exploitation unit says five children were drugged and sexually assaulted in a Warminster, ON, residence on several occasions in 2011. Paul Gerard Devries, 35, of Warminster, ON, has been charged. (CTV) |
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SUDBURY - Michael Clement was so active downloading, sharing and chatting about child pornography on the Internet over a five-month period in 2010 that he drew the attention of 5 law enforcement bodies and 2 child protection bodies in Canada and the US. (QMI) MORE: 3 years |
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MONTREAL - The SQ is arresting 5 people across the province who allegedly created and swapped child pornography. (CTV) |
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VERNON - Elementary school teacher Deborah Ashton has been found not guilty of sexually assaulting one of her young students. The 47-year-old was also acquitted on a charge of sexual interference with a person under the age of 14 Wednesday in BC Supreme Court. A previous trial for Ashton ended a year ago when jurors were unable to reach a verdict. (CTV) MORE: Teacher not guilty Mistrial |
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TORONTO - An 85-year-old retired school teacher has been charged in connection to a sexual assault investigation dating back 50 years, and police fear there could be more potential victims. Toronto police allege the suspect befriended a seven-year-old boy and sexually abused the victim for several years. Alec Owen, 85, of Toronto, has been charged with two counts of indecent assault on a male. (CTV) |
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CHARLOTTETOWN - A PEI man was sentenced to 6 years in prison Friday for sex crimes against a child. David Vernon James Keaveny, 37, was found guilty of two counts of sexual interference and one count of invitation to sexual touching. (CBC) MORE: 'Horrible monster' sentenced |
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OTTAWA - A 42-year-old Ottawa man faces several charges related to child pornography, including making it himself. Gregory Kusec was arrested and charged. (CTV) MORE: Child porn charges Canadian Forces member charged |
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TORONTO - Police have arrested a man in connection with the abduction and sexual assault of a 4-year-old girl from a North York home last year on Boxing Day. The girl was visiting from Connecticut, and staying at a home near Bathurst St and Wilson Ave. She was taken from her room around 3:30am and sexually assaulted nearby. (Toronto Star) MORE: Arrest in Boxing day abduction |
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KAMLOOPS - The man who kidnapped a 3-year old boy from his home in Sparwood BC last year has pleaded guilty. Randall Hopley, 46, appeared via CCTV from a jail in Kamloops on Monday. Hopley surprised the court by admitting that he snatched Kienan Hebert from his bed last September and led police on a frantic manhunt. The boy was returned to the home unharmed four days later and Hopley was later arrested near the BC/AB border. (CTV) PREVIOUS: RCMP release images of takedown Arrest made Suspect caught Fugitive built child lair in cabin Abduction 1 in 10M |
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ROSSLAND - A 17-year-old is facing 47 charges, including numerous sexual offences and child luring. The youth, who can’t be named because of his age, is accused of using social media to contact children aged 10 to 14 to have them perform sexual acts over their web cameras and arrange face-to-face meetings with them. Police have currently identified 20 children were involved. (QMI) |
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TORONTO - A mother who exposed two known child molesters to her 10-year-old daughter for their perverse sexual gratification was sentenced Tuesday to 6 1/2 years in jail. "This was a case like no other," Justice Gary Trotter said in passing sentence on the now 61-year-old first offender, who adopted the 18-month-old girl from Romania in 1997. Last June a jury found the mother enabled convicted pedophile Randolph "Randie" Bartley, 54, to babysit her daughter between Feb 1, 2005, and Aug 21, 2006. (QMI) |
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VAUGHAN - 60 people, including 3 teenagers, face child pornography charges in what the OPP said is the largest bust of its kind in Canadian history. The OPP said Thursday more than 200 charges were laid against the suspects from across the province. One suspect is also under arrest in the US. (CTV) MORE: Charged Persons .pdf |
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EDMONTON - A local man admitted Tuesday to having sex with his own children and the daughters of two girlfriends and using a whip and a dog in his twisted crimes. The 41-year-old man - who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victims - pleaded guilty to 8 counts of sexual interference, 8 counts of inviting sexual touching, 4 counts of child pornography, 2 counts of incest, unlawful confinement, attempted counselling of sexual interference, administering a stupefying drug, bestiality and using a whip in a sexual assault. (QMI) |
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TORONTO - A Toronto public school teacher has been sentenced to nearly four and a half years in prison on charges related to child pornography. However, with credit for time already served, Stewart Adams will spend less than two years in jail. Adams plead guilty to possessing, distributing and accessing child porn. (CityNews) |
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CALGARY - 3 young children alleged to have been raped by a 13-year-old boy living in the same foster home have been removed while the accused attacker is in custody. (QMI) MORE: Assault charges 'horrifying' |
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VANCOUVER - A man who climbed through a 12-year-old girl's bedroom window and sexually assaulted her two years ago will serve another 5 years and 7 months in prison. Antonio Eduardo Daponte, 46, has a criminal record that spans 21 years. (PostMedia) |
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OTTAWA - Raymond Lahey, the disgraced Roman Catholic bishop who admitted he was addicted to looking at child pornography, will be released. Lahey, 71, a Newfoundlander and former head of the Nova Scotia diocese of Antigonish, was caught in 2009 at Ottawa's airport after authorities checked his personal computer and found a large cache of child pornography. (CBC) MORE: Raymond Lahey Lahey to be released Guilty plea Guilty plea to 1 charge Guilty plea |
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HALIFAX - A Cape Breton man convicted of sexually abusing boys decades ago has been acquitted of all of the charges against him because of the long delay in bringing him to trial, a judge ruled Thursday. The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal found that Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh was not brought to trial in a reasonable time after he was extradited from India in 2007 to face the charges that surfaced in 1995 and dated back to the 1970s. (CP) |
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2011 NSCA 111 .pdf Sex offender says he was beaten |
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LAC LA BICHE - After an investigation in the US lead investigators to his doorstep, a Lac La Biche man is facing charges of child pornography. ALERT's ICE unit has charged 62-year-old Daniel Quiring Stoesz with possessing child pornography, and making it available. After some investigation, the ICE unit found the accused is employed by the Government of Alberta, as a foster care supervisor in the Lac La Biche area. (CTV) |
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TORONTO - An elementary school teacher accused of child pornography offences is in court. James Robert Coulter, 41, works at East York’s Cosburn Middle School where he taught a Grade 7/8 split class. The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) said the charges do not involve any students from the school. (CityNews) MORE: Teacher faces child porn charges |
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MONCTON - A 52-year-old Moncton, NB, man has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for what Mounties call one of the largest child pornography seizures in Canada. Douglas Hugh Stewart previously pleaded guilty to the charges in Moncton court. On March 23, police seized more than 5M pornographic images after a province-wide investigation was launched in 2010. (QMI) PREVIOUS: Child porn guilty plea |
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BRAMPTON - An Ontario lawyer has been convicted of possessing child pornography and given permission to resign from his profession. But because of a publication ban imposed by a judge in his criminal case in Brampton in December 2009, there is almost nothing more you can know. (Toronto Star) MORE: Shocked by publication ban |
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OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has ordered a new trial for a man who claimed he collected hundreds of child porn images for artistic purposes. But in a unanimous 9-0 decision, the top court says an appeals court was right to overturn a trial judge's acquittal of Robert Katigbak. The Supreme Court says the Ontario Court of Appeal was not entitled to address questions of fact on a Crown appeal. (CBC) MORE: 2011 SCC 48 New trial |
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VANCOUVER - A man who worked at an Indian residential school in northern Saskatchewan is charged with abusing boys at that institution. Paul Leroux was a dormitory supervisor at the Beauval Indian Residential School in the 1960s. He's accused of indecent assaults against 13 boys who attended the school at that time, the RCMP said. The victims were between 3 and 18 years old at the time. (CBC) |
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CALGARY - Repeatedly raping his daughter - a crime kept secret because the girl didn't want her little brother to lose his dad - has landed a Calgary man a 6-year prison term. Justice Peter Clark accepted a joint Crown and defence submission which spared the victim having to testify against her father. The father, 35, pleaded guilty last Oct 25 to incest for sexually abusing his daughter from the time she was 7 or 8, until she disclosed it when she was 11. (QMI) |
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SYDNEY - An Ingonish Beach man has been sent to prison following a lengthy police investigation that uncovered thousands of images of child pornography. David Carter Roger Archibald pleaded guilty to 21 counts of making child porn, 14 of distributing it and 1 count of possessing it. Archibald was sentenced to three years in prison. (CBC) PREVIOUS: Child porn charges |
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VANCOUVER - A Surrey, BC man has been charged with sex offences against six minors over the last two decades, and police believe there could be several more victims. James Cardno, 46, was arrested and charged in March in connection with eight sex-related offences involving four children under the age of 16. (CTV) MORE: RCMP seek more victims |
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VANCOUVER - A former acting teacher at BC's Capilano College has been found guilty of multiple sex offences involving children. Michael Berry was convicted in BC Supreme Court in Vancouver on 13 sex-related charges dating back to the late 1970s and early 1980s. The court was told the West Vancouver man befriended girls between the ages of 7 and 13. He then photographed or filmed them naked or engaging in sex acts with each other or himself. (CBC) PREVIOUS: Former teacher faces 23 more sex charges |
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OTTAWA - An Orléans man pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child pornography. Gilles Simard, 56, admitted to possessing 24,640 child exploitation movies along with 5,532 pictures of child pornography. Some of the videos included infants being sexually abused. (Ottawa Citizen) |
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CALGARY - A Calgary man has been charged with making and distributing child pornography. The Southern Alberta Internet Child Exploitation Unit was involved in an undercover operation led by the FBI. Roderick "Kyle" Janssen, 35, has been charged with possession of child pornography, accessing child pornography, making child pornography, and distributing child pornography. Additional charges are pending. (CTV) |
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BELLEVILLE - A southeastern Ontario woman was handed a two-year sentence for child pornography offences involving her infant daughter. The woman pleaded guilty on March 1 to sexual interference and producing child porn. Police allege thousands of pictures of an 11-month-old girl were found on the child's father's cellphone after he lost it last August. The 24-year-old father, who also lives near Belleville, received a six-year prison sentence in February. (CP) |
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KINGSTON - A Napanee man who worked as a clown pleaded guilty to child pornography charges. Randy Miller, 40, pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of child pornography, one count of making child pornography available, and one count of sexual assault involving a minor. He was arrested last October as part of an international police sting called Project Sanctuary. Police found about 60,000 pornographic images of children on his computers. (CityNews) MORE: Guilty plea |
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VANCOUVER - Crown approved charges against two men in relation to the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl at a rave party in Pitt Meadows on September 10, 2010. Colton Ashton McMORRIS, 18, of Maple Ridge has been charged with sexual assault, contrary to Section 271 of the Criminal Code. Dennis John Allen WARRINGTON, 19, of Langley has been charged under Criminal Code Sec. 163.1 (2) for the production of the child pornography and Sec. 163.1 (3) for the distribution of child pornography. (RCMP) PREVIOUS: Generation of spectators Arrest in gang rape 2nd arrest |
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PLACERVILLE, Calif. - A serial sex offender has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for kidnapping and raping a California girl and holding her captive for 18 years while fathering her two children. A judge on Thursday imposed the maximum possible sentence of 431 years to life on 60-year-old Phillip Craig Garrido, calling the defendant's treatment of Jaycee Dugard evil and reprehensible. (AP) Jaycee Lee Dugard Police focus on ‘monster’ Nancy For kidnap victims, recovery can come slowly, if at all Daughters 'like brainwashed zombies' 'Wait until you hear the story' |
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LOUISA, Virginia - A Canadian man who travelled to the US intent on impregnating a 14-year-old girl and bringing her home with him has been sentenced to a whopping 110 years behind bars south of the border. Alan Sauve, 48, of Windsor was convicted of 22 counts of soliciting a child over the Internet for sexual purposes. (QMI) MORE: Child luring |
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'World's largest paedophile ring' HAGUE - International police led by a UK team say they shut down the largest internet paedophile ring yet discovered. The global forum had 70,000 followers at its height, leading to 4,000 intelligence reports being sent to police across 30 countries. The operation has so far identified 670 suspects and 230 abused children. Detectives say 184 people have been arrested - 121 of them were in the UK. Some 60 children have been protected in the UK. The three-year investigation, Operation Rescue, was led by investigators from the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop). (BBC) MORE: Paedophiles arrested 2 arrested in Canada |
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PITTSBURGH - A former Ottawa cop is heading to prison for 10 1/2 years for traveling to the US to have sex with a minor. A Pennsylvania judge sentenced Paul Maher, 60, Tuesday after he pleaded guilty last year in an online teen sex sting. Maher drove nearly 965 km in his pickup truck in June 2008 to Mount Pleasant, Penn. to have sex with a 14-year-old girl he had been chatting with for nine months. (QMI) MORE: Former Canadian cop sentenced Guilty plea Sex sting |
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NEWARK - For eight years, John Wrenshall took young boys - some no older than four years old - into his home in Bangkok, Thailand, and charged men invited from around the world for the opportunity to videotape themselves sexually abusing them. On Monday, the 64-year-old former Calgary scout leader learned he would spend the next 25 years in a US prison after pleading guilty in a New Jersey courtroom to three counts of an 18-count indictment related to his operation of what was, quite literally, a brothel for pedophiles. (National Post) MORE: Judge sentences Canadian Guilty plea Man admits running child brothel Justice Department release |
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OTTAWA - He slept with the 14-year-old girl, groomed her 11-year-old sister for sex play and used violence and threats to keep them in line. On Friday, a judge sentenced Collin Robinson, 33, to 6 1/2 years in prison. That's on top of a 10-month sentence he received for sexually interfering with their 4-year-old sister while he dated their mother. (QMI) |
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TORONTO - Police say a York University researcher who was among 57 men charged in connection with an international child pornography network has committed suicide. York University spokesman says Richard Dyde died Thursday at age 47 - a day after his arrest was made public. (CTV) PREVIOUS: TPS press release .pdf Child porn network Clown, professor and university don among arrested |
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OSHAWA - A convicted child molester who befriended then sexually assaulted and videotaped numerous young girls has been declared a long-term offender and sentenced to 12 years in prison. It’s recommended that Ross Stratton undergo treatment that includes chemical castration to curb his sex drive, Justice Paul Bellefontaine said in Oshawa court. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Suspect may be prolific pedophile Friendly stranger and his house of horrors |
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ORANGEVILLE - A former provincial police officer is going to prison for eight years for molesting boys over a 25-year period while he was on the force. Robert Lewis, 63, was found guilty of 19 sex-related offences that occurred between 1969 and 2004 and involved seven victims. (QMI) PREVIOUS: Retired officer convicted |
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LADYSMITH - RCMP say they are overwhelmed by the discovery of about 1M pictures of child pornography found on the computers of a Ladysmith, BC, man. The 64-year-old was arrested after police executed search warrants at his business, in his car and at his home in the Vancouver Island community. Officers seized 10 computers and several digital cameras, web cameras, DVDs and 29 hard drives, all containing sexually explicit images of minors. (CBC) MORE: Charges pending |
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EDMONTON - The mother of a young Edmonton girl abducted and raped by a pedophile with a long history of attacking children has launched a $1M lawsuit against authorities. The statement of claim, filed in court Monday, alleges the Edmonton Police Service, the Correctional Service of Canada, the National Parole Board, the Minister of Public Safety and the Attorney General of Canada are responsible for the attack by sexual predator Danial Gratton. (QMI) MORE: Victim sues |
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Sex offender ordered deported, again WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg man, convicted 5 times of molesting children, has been ordered deported to his native Philippines. Josefino Abelada, 49, had most recently pled guilty to two counts of sexual interference and one count of breaching a probation order. He was sentenced Tuesday to 22 months in jail. (QMI) |
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LISBON - All 7 defendants in a long-running trial in Portugal have been found guilty over the sexual abuse of children at a state-run home. The 6 men and 1 woman include Carlos Cruz, a former top TV presenter, and Jorge Ritto, a retired ambassador. Between them they faced hundreds of charges relating to the rape and abuse of 32 boys in the 1990s. (BBC) MORE: Casa Pia child sexual abuse scandal Guilty Why Portugal is a haven for paedophiles Carlos Cruz |
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VANCOUVER - A former Vancouver private school teacher was allegedly part of an international Facebook child pornography ring, say police. Christopher Charles Ingvaldson, 40, was charged in June with four counts of possession and distribution of kiddie porn. (Vancouver Province) PREVIOUS: Ringleader jailed 2 BC Canadians in child porn bust Trudeau shocked over friend's charges Teacher arrested for child porn |
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Child porn conviction reversed VANCOUVER - The BC Court of Appeal has acquitted former Victoria youth prosecutor Roger Denley of accessing and possessing child pornography. Denley had been found guilty in October 2008 of accessing and possessing child porn on his home computer between Nov. 1, 2003, and Aug. 30, 2004. The appeal court concluded that a computer automatically saving images was not sufficient to constitute possession. The trial judge also found the former prosecutor had not intentionally saved any of the images, which were saved as a result of browsing. The images on the hard drive were not accessible to the ordinary user without special software. There was no evidence they were available for use or viewing by Denley. (Victoria Times Colonist) |
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BARRIE - A Barrie Ont., man who played the role of Santa in the city’s annual Christmas parades was sent to jail yesterday for possession of thousands of images and movies of child pornography. Daniel Gyselinck, 58, stood in the prisoner’s box with a snowy white beard and long white hair and was taken away in handcuffs after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography as well as making child pornography after he copied it from Limewire onto thousands of CDs. (QMI) |
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VANCOUVER - Tim Bachman, one of the founding members of the 1970s Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, has been charged with three sex-related crimes involving a minor. The charges against Bachman include one count of sexual touching, one count of sexual interference and one count of sexual assault, all involving the same female, who police say was 11 when the crimes started. The charges relate to incidents that are alleged to have occurred in Abbotsford between June 2000 and April 2004. (CBC) Tim Bachman |
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VICTORIA - A Saanich man, who fled to Britain in an attempt to avoid serious child sex- abuse charges, was extradited back to Canada after a months-long international hunt. John Cox, 34, was arrested on May 5 in Kent, England, nearly four months after he failed to show up for his mid-February trial at the provincial court house in Victoria. He is charged with nine child sex offences, including sexual assault and sexual interference against a child. (Victoria Times Colonist) |
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WINNIPEG - A 34-year-old career criminal accused of kidnapping and raping a 6-year-old girl would likely have been in jail at the time of the sex attack had the Crown got their way at a recent sentencing hearing. Greg Glen Hope was arrested and charged with child abduction and several sex-related charges, including sexual assault causing bodily harm. (Mike on Crime) PREVIOUS: Man charged |
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VANCOUVER - A Burnaby man has been handed the longest sentence ever handed out in Canada for committing acts of sexual tourism: 11 years in prison. In May, Kenneth Robert Klassen, 59, pleaded guilty to six counts of invitation to sexual touching involving girls under the age of 14 in Colombia. The offences occurred between December 1998 and March 2002. (Vancouver Province) MORE: 11 years in Federal prison 'Customer' 'Willing participants' Sex-tourism case hears from defence Targeting 'extremely thin' girls Repeat sex offender Sex tourism guilty plea Guilty of sex tourism Sex tourism charges laid RCMP announce charges in sex tourism case |
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MONTREAL - Bill Surkis, the former Quebec regional director for B'nai Brith, has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. It's a stunning reversal for the well-respected member of Montreal's Jewish community. Surkis, 70, was Academic Dean of John Abbott College for 22 years, in addition to being the regional director for the Jewish-rights group B'nai Brith. (CTV) MORE: Surkis pleads guilty |
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CALGARY - An ex-city police officer pleaded guilty to accessing and possession of child pornography just before he was to face a jury trial. The jury was selected for the trial of Paul Roger Villecourt, 37, but dismissed by Court of Queen's Bench Justice Patrick Sullivan following the pleas through defence lawyer. (Calgary Herald) |
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WINNIPEG - A concerned woman in the Philippines was the key to bringing a Manitoba sex offender to justice. Bruce Nelson pleaded guilty to charges of child pornography and indecent exposure in an unusual case that began overseas. (Mike on Crime) |
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KINGSTON - A man involved with an Ottawa church who was convicted in the past of assaulting more than one dozen choir boys in the Kingston area is charged with another historical sexual assault in Kingston. Police charged John Gallienne, 65, with indecent assault. Investigators say the allegations against Gallienne date back to 1980. Gallienne is a former Anglican choirmaster in Kingston, who pleaded guilty to 20 sex crimes against young boys between 1975 and 1990. He was also convicted of three more sex charges involving another boy in 1992. (CTV) |
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TORONTO - A man accused of trying to buy a child online allegedly offered to pay generously for one as “young as possible” during an Internet chat presented as evidence at his detention hearing. Patrick Molesti, a French fugitive who fled the US for Canada to escape child exploitation charges, was ordered to remain in the northwestern Ontario jail where he’s been held. (CP) PREVIOUS: Man arrested for trying to buy child |
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OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned the child pornography conviction of a Saskatchewan man, after agreeing his rights were violated by an unreasonable search of his home computer. Urbain P. Morelli claimed his charter rights were violated because his computer was searched by police after a visiting computer technician noticed two suspicious links on his home computer. In a split, 4-3 decision, the high court acquitted Morelli after ruling police relied on a "carelessly drafted" and "misleading" search warrant. (CP) JUDGMENT: 2010 SCC 8 |
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A tip from US investigators led the RCMP to lay child pornography charges against a Labrador teacher. Mark Baxter White, 40, of Happy Valley-Goose Bay has been suspended with pay from his job as an English teacher and librarian at Mealy Mountain Collegiate. (CBC) |
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QUEBEC - A man convicted of kidnapping a child, raping him and leaving him an empty fuel tank in Levis, Que. said he regrets his actions, though he maintains he has no memory of the events. Pierre Defoy, 52, said he knows he committed the crimes for which he pleaded guilty to after seeing the evidence against him, and says he believes his victim ł100 %." Dr. John Wolwertz testified that Defoy's struggles with his sexual orientation, and may have developed amnesia to divert his attention away from his crime. Wolwertz also said Defoy was at a high risk to re-offend. (QMI) |
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EDMONTON - Police are searching for a 54-year-old man in connection with the sexual assault of a child northwest of Rocky Mountain House. RCMP officers were called to a home on the Sunchild First Nations Reserve and were told a young child who lived at the home had allegedly been sexually assaulted by a family friend living at the house. The child, who is under the age of six, was taken to a Calgary hospital to be assessed. RCMP are searching for Dexter Strawberry, 54. (Edmonton Journal) |
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WINDSOR - A judge in Windsor, Ont., is deciding how to sentence a woman who repeatedly sexually assaulted her two-year-old son while live-streaming the acts on the internet. The woman, who is from Lakeshore, Ont., on Lake St. Clair, was facing 12 charges, but pleaded guilty to five of them, including sexual assault, making child pornography and possessing child pornography. An earlier charge of bestiality was withdrawn. The woman's name is banned from publication to protect her child. (CBC) 'You are mentally ill' |
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VICTORIA - The BC Supreme Court trial of a Victoria man - whose relationship with a 12-year-old girl from Vancouver led to child-luring and child-pornography charges against him - opened with the jury being shown explicit videos of the victim and accused having sex. Crown counsel Dan Scanlan intends to prove that Albert Quinones, 24 at the time of the offence, and the victim, whose name is protected under a court order, met online and carried out a relationship for several months that violated the Criminal Code because the girl was a minor. (Victoria Times Colonist) |
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VANCOUVER - A Surrey pastor was convicted and sentenced to jail after an explicit video was posted online encouraging the rape of a young teenage girl. Larry Robert Collins was convicted for possession of child pornography. He was sentenced to 15 months in jail, to be followed by three years of probation. (CTV) |
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CALGARY - A city man has been sentenced to 81/2 years in prison for sexually abusing at least five girls in Calgary and BC. Provincial court Judge Bruce Millar imposed the sentence on Theodore Raymond Edward Morgan, 46, who had previously pleaded guilty to 17 charges relating to incidents in 2001, 2005 and 2006. Morgan pleaded guilty to several counts of sexual assault, sexual touching and uttering death threats to eight-and nine-year-old girls in homes here and in Mission, BC. (Calgary Herald) |
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VANCOUVER - A man accused of child-sex crimes in Thailand and Cambodia has admitted in a BC court that police have reasonable grounds to fear he is a risk to the public. A five-day court hearing had been planned for Orville Mader to determine if he posed a risk and should be held under a peace bond. (CP) MORE: Canadian paedophile admits he represents an ongoing threat |
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WINNIPEG - A convicted US sex offender has spent the past three weeks in a Winnipeg jail cell after allegedly trying to bring child pornography into Canada. Gregory Joseph Lague, 47, was arrested at the Emerson border crossing on Sept. 24. (Mike on Crime) |
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CALGARY - Police have charged a man with repeatedly sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl. Jaret Douglas Davis, 32, was arrested in Virden, MB last month and transported back to Calgary on Monday. Police say Davis was a friend of the victim's mother. (Calgary Herald) |
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WINNIPEG - A US missionary who has travelled the world teaching religion to youth has been handed one of the longest child pornography sentences in Manitoba history. Ronald William White received a 20-month penalty after pleading guilty to importing nearly 5,000 disturbing images into Canada - and after claiming some of the images in his collection would be accepted by more cosmopolitan Europeans. (Mike on Crime) PREVIOUS: Missionary faces jail time |
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WINNIPEG - The 31-year-old, who can’t be named under a court order, made Manitoba legal history when she pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. She was given the mandatory minimum sentence of 14 days in jail and becomes the first female in the province ever to be sentenced for this type of offence. (Mike on Crime) RELATED: Taking child porn photos nets 18 months |
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EDMONTON - An Edmonton pedophile who molested two boys and sexually abused a young girl has been handed a 12-year penitentiary sentence and tagged a long-term offender. That means when Harold Francis Pretty, 59, is released from prison into the community, he will be on probation under strict conditions for 10 years. (Sun Media) |
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ST ALBERT - A 45-year-old Edmonton-area man, who was charged with possessing child pornography, was found dead by RCMP. Officers found the body of Kerry Glen Avey lying near a vehicle parked in the visitors area of the St. Albert RCMP detachment at 2:35am Saturday. Police say Avey died from a self-inflicted gun shot to the head. A shotgun was found near the body. (CTV) MORE: Teacher kills self Suspect kills self Man accused of child porn found dead |
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GANDER, NL - A charge of making child pornography has been laid against a retired RCMP officer who was charged earlier this year with possession of child pornography. In March, Hank Johnston, 72, of Gander, was charged with possession of child pornography in what the RCMP described as country-wide crackdown on child porn. (CBC) |
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BARRIE - Unrepentant to the end, David Carswell has dodged a jail term for having child pornography images on his computer. Justice Nancy Dawson, who said the 55-year-old retired school teacher has shown no remorse even after she convicted him in June and may still remain a risk, nonetheless spared Carswell a jail cell and instead sentenced him to six months of house arrest. (Toronto Star) |
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WINNIPEG - Ross Brown was a respected doctor, a former president of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and sat on the board of directors for Special Olympics. Today he sits in jail, serving a 45-day sentence for possession of child pornography. (Sun Media) MORE: Community leader gets 45 days in jail |
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CALGARY - A day home operator who sexually assaulted two young girls in his care weekly for more than a year was given a four-year prison sentence for the crimes. In handing down the sentence, provincial court Judge Allan Fradsham emphasized that David Watkins, 67, had been in a position of trust with the two girls - between ages six and eight at the time - and that was an aggravating factor. (Calgary Herald) |
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WINNIPEG - A 19-year-old man was arrested. He is facing a total of 60 charges, including 21 counts of sexual assault, 5 counts of administering a noxious substance, 2 counts of forcible confinement and 1 count of juvenile prostitution. In a statement, RCMP said investigators identified 11 victims, all boys between the ages of eight and 14. Police say the alleged offences occurred between 2002 and July, 2009. (CTV) MORE: 60 sex offences against boys |
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TORONTO - A Toronto man has been accused of molesting a five-year-old boy in a Moss Park apartment. The 50-year-old accused, apparently a friend of the boy's family, allegedly brought the young victim to his Sherbourne St. apartment on Thursday, according to Toronto Police. Dennis James Taylor was arrested and charged with sexual assault and sexual interference. (Sun Media) MORE: Pedophile accused of assaulting boy |
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VANCOUVER - West Vancouver resident Jack Crone, a former senior executive at a major bank, was sentenced this morning to four months in prison for possession of child pornography. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: Guilty plea Crone pleads guilty Child porn suspect ducks media Child porn case adjourned |
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MONTREAL - A former teacher from a prestigious Montreal private school will serve at least 24 years behind bars in Virginia after being sentenced on more sex-related charges involving children. Richard Doucet was sentenced in a Fredericksburg courtroom Friday to spend 14 years and seven months in jail. The 37-year-old pleaded guilty in the spring to 25 counts of possession of child pornography. (CTV) MORE: More jail time Teacher gets another 14 years Another Selwyn staffer faces charges Selwyn House 'Sledgehammer' sentences adding up Detective's online avatar traps predators Montreal teacher busted Teacher also choirmaster School rocked by another sex scandal |
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WINNIPEG - A 66-year-old Winnipeg man has been sentenced to two years in prison after admitting he repeatedly molested his granddaughter beginning when she was three years old. (Sun Media) |
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AJAX - For two years Ray Collingham felt like somebody was holding a gun to his head. The reality was even worse. The 39-year-old former gymnastics teacher was accused - and acquitted - of having sex with an 11-year-old boy he had coached. (Sun Media) |
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CALGARY - A retired, 25-year veteran city police officer has been jailed for nine months for downloading and viewing violent images and movies of child pornography. Provincial court Judge Barbara Velduis, in sentencing Stephen Laurence Huggett, 51 said there was no evidence to support his explanation that he was conducting a one-man investigation to save the victims. (Calgary Herald) MORE: Former officer receives jail time Misguided effort Downloaded child porn to help kids Ex-cop admits downloading kiddie porn Retired police officer pleads guilty |
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VICTORIA - The Law Society of BC wants the public to know the name of a lawyer who was convicted of sexual exploitation of a minor. Harold Garrett Power was convicted in May of this year and has since given up the ability to practise law, but a publication ban has until now prevented the society and the media from naming him. A BC Supreme Court judge has lifted the ban, prompting the law society to send out a news release revealing Power's identity to "protect the public." (CP) PREVIOUS: Lawyer convicted Law Society protects their own, again |
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VANCOUVER - A Lower mainland businessman is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the man accused of sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl. Police say the attack happened on Friday evening in the area of 139th Street & 62nd Avenue when the girl was walking home with her brother, 12, and his friend,15. Police say a man with a knife threatened the boys, separated them from the girl and assaulted her. (CBC) MORE: 'Disgusting and gross' Girl, 6, sexually assaulted Father looking for suspect |
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MONTREAL - David Wadsworth's resumé just keeps growing. He's a former high school principal, convicted child molester and a distributor, producer and possessor of child pornography. He's now a long-term offender. (Montreal Gazette) PREVIOUS: Wadsworth sentenced to 40 months Molester gets 40 months |
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Man charged with sexual assault CALGARY - Police have charged a Calgary man after receiving sexual assault complaints from three young girls dating back to 1998. On July 10th, Child Abuse Unit investigators charged 53-year-old Ronald A. Sayers with three counts of sexual interference with a child under the age of 16 and three counts of sexual assault. (CTV) |
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VANCOUVER - A popular teacher at an Abbotsford Catholic high school has been charged with child exploitation after an incident involving one of his female students. Abbotsford Police say the two charges against Martin Careen, 49, were laid after an investigation began in April. (CTV) |
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OTTAWA - A local Roman Catholic congregation is stunned to learn one of their own is facing child pornography charges. Father James Anthony Jordan, 63, a member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, was arrested and charged with one count of possessing child pornography. (Sun Media) |
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EDMONTON - A diagnosed pedophile and sex addict who was a former Edmonton school teacher's assistant and volunteer with Kids Kottage has been put behind bars for child porn. Todd William Tenetiuk, 41, was sentenced to seven months in jail, followed by three years' probation, after earlier pleading guilty to charges of possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography. (Sun Media) |
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VANCOUVER - The BC Court of Appeal has more than doubled the sentence for a man convicted of sexually abusing his daughter for 13 years, starting when she was a toddler. The Crown had appealed last November's sentence of two years less a day and the appeal court agreed, saying it didn't fit such an abhorrent crime. The man must now serve a five-year prison sentence, plus three years probation. (CP) BC Court of Appeals doubles sentence |
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Guidance counsellor charged with making child porn ATHABASCA - A former high school guidance counsellor from the northern Alberta community of Athabasca will go to trial this summer on charges of sexual exploitation and making child pornography. A three-day preliminary hearing found there is sufficient evidence to proceed with seven charges against Jason Keough dating back to 2005. (CP) |
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TORONTO - In a stunning turnaround, a Superior Court judge abruptly pronounced a former Toronto Fire captain guilty of child pornography, weapons and marijuana grow-op charges. "The Crown presented an overwhelming case and I don't believe the evidence of Mr. Connor," said Justice Anne Molloy to former firefighter Scott Connor after his lawyer, Paula Locke, finished her closing arguments. (Sun Media) MORE: Judge convicts ex-firefighter |
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REGINA - The National Parole Board is continuing day parole for a pedophile who drowned a five-year-old Calgary girl and stuffed her body into a garbage can nearly three decades ago. The board says Harold Smeltzer has remained a manageable risk since he was released to a Regina halfway house last November. (CP) MORE: Unescorted day parole |
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EDMONTON - Local cops are closely watching what US media are calling one of the worst child- porn cases ever as it unfolds in Mexico. Edmonton police Staff Sgt. Howard Kunce of the Integrated Child Exploitation Unit said it will likely take a couple of weeks for Mexican and Canadian federal cops to sort through the mountain of evidence seized last week from a Tijuana beachfront home belonging to Canadian Arthur Leland Sayler. (Sun Media) MORE: Police explore local link PREVIOUS: Global kid-porn ring Canadian arrested |
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Cop's beer savvy cracked porn ring BALTIMORE - US justice officials are crediting a Canadian police officer's investigative smarts - and expertise with beer - for cracking a major child-pornography case that led to a 36-year prison sentence for a Maryland man. (CanWest) MORE: Law enforcement coordination |
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SAUDI ARABIA - An 8-year-old Saudi Arabian girl who was married off by her father to a man in his 50s has had the union annulled. The case, which had generated local and international outrage, ended with an out-of-court settlement. The child, who has not been named, had been told by a court last December that she would not be allowed to divorce her husband until she reached puberty. (Guardian UK) PREVIOUS: Divorce denied |
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TORONTO - Youth hockey team coaches, managers and parents were left stunned by a respected colleague's arrest yesterday during an international child pornography investigation. James Ian Duff is charged with possessing, making and accessing child pornography. "There is nothing at this point to suggest he's a hands-on offender," Toronto Police child exploitation unit Const. Joel Manherz said. (Sun Media) MORE: Hockey coach arrested Child porn charges |
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EDMONTON - A pedophile who has admitted assaulting more than 50 boys was declared a dangerous offender. Christopher Robin Karasek, 33, was then sentenced to an indefinite prison term. (Edmonton Journal) |
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Police across Canada have arrested more than 50 people on charges of sexual assault, sexual interference and possessing, making and distributing child pornography. Project Salvo, the largest-ever coordinated investigation of Internet-based child sexual abuse in Canada, was led by the National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre (NCECC). (CTV) MORE: 11 BC residents arrested |
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TRENTON - A 14-year-old New Jersey girl has been accused of child pornography after posting nearly 30 explicit nude pictures of herself on MySpace.com - charges that could force her to register as a sex offender if convicted. Maureen Kanka - whose daughter, Megan, became the law's namesake after she was raped and killed at age 7 in 1994 by a twice-convicted sex offender - blasted authorities for charging the 14-year-old girl. "This shouldn't fall under Megan's Law in any way, shape or form. She should have an intervention and counseling, because the only person she exploited was herself." (AP) |
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MONTREAL - Police have released a photo of a 71-year-old alleged pedophile in the hopes that other alleged victims will come forward. Leonide Corbin is accused of molesting three young girls between 1971 and 2008 in Montreal and Lachute. (CTV) |
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TORONTO - Calling it the largest child-porn bust in Ontario history, provincial police announced that they have pressed 93 charges against 31 suspects, a sweeping effort that also rescued two victims, one of them a four-year-old boy. (National Post) MORE: Bust frees 2 children |
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MONTREAL - A self-described pastor who hoped his "marriage" to a 10-year-old girl he took to bed would convince a judge to acquit him on a sexual assault charge was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday. Daniel Cormier, who was convicted last October following a lengthy trial, has a maximum of 49 months left behind bars because of time already served. (CP) |
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TORONTO - Sperm found on underpants worn by a 7-year-old boy matches that of an HIV-positive man accused of molesting him, a forensic scientist says. Kelly Bowie, of the Centre of Forensic Sciences, said yesterday the chances of DNA in the sperm belonging to someone other than Donald Mumford are one in 2.2 trillion. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Threatened with death, kid testifies Man molested me frequently |
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REGINA - More than a year after Darren Philpott was arrested, and two months after he died in a Regina hospital, there are things Michelle* wants to know. There are so many questions she had hoped to ask Philpott herself one day, but they will now go forever unanswered. (Regina Leader-Post) PREVIOUS: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 |
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TORONTO - Paul Thomas was a volunteer at a city-run daycare in downtown Toronto, where he formed a special group called "J club" for some of the children he helped mind. So when he repeatedly engaged in sexual activity with a 5-year-old boy, the victim was worried that, if he told on Thomas, he would be kicked out of the club and lose out on candy, prizes and a feeling of being special. (Toronto Star) |
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Neil gets more jail time BANGKOK - A Thai court has handed down a second jail sentence for pedophile offences to Canadian Christopher Paul Neil, who was captured after a hunt by the international police agency Interpol last year. (CP) MORE: 6 more years PREVIOUS: 3 years in Thai jail Pedophile faces new charges Pedophile faces another trial BC pedophile gets 3 years 'Swirl face' jailed Canadian sentenced for sex abuse Pedophile suspect pleads not guilty Canadian sex crimes suspect pleads not guilty New charges against Neil Police find another 'victim of paedophile' 'Help get me out' Offenders abroad: 1 conviction in 10 years Police tracked Canadian from Pattaya to Korat |
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VICTORIA - The arrest of a Victoria man for possessing child pornography has sparked investigations in 16 countries. Matthew Cohen, 21, traded more than 186,000 child pornography images with hundreds of people around the world, Victoria police Det. Bob Elder said yesterday. Details of the case have been kept secret until now to allow other jurisdictions to pursue suspects. (Victoria Times Colonist) |
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TORONTO - Police are asking parents of children at a daycare in the city's northwest to come forward after two men were arrested and charged with sexual assaults at the facility. A 12-year-old girl told police that she was sexually assaulted by a man at Benevenga Day Care on Apted Ave. (Toronto Star) |
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MUSKEY LAKE CREE NATION - RCMP are investigating an allegation of a sexual assault on a 3-year-old girl by a group of preteens on the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation. "All of those involved are under 12 so when our investigation is complete we'll pass it on to child and family services. It's about getting help to everyone involved," Blaine Lake RCMP Const. Kirby Lavik said. (Saskatoon Star Phoenix) |
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Police find child porn victims TORONTO - A former children's store employee is facing child pornography-related charges after police discovered photos of three Toronto victims amid thousands of images seized from a home he frequented. Geoffrey Tang, 36, also known as Chun Chung Geoffrey Tang, has been charged with 11 offences, including sexual assault, voyeurism and making child pornography. (Toronto Star) |
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EDMONTON - A long-term offender now charged with the sexual assaults of two young girls did not meet Correctional Service of Canada criteria that would have prompted police to warn the public when he was released into the community in March. (Edmonton Journal) PREVIOUS: Laissez faire justice Just hating pedophiles won't keep children safe Long-term offender charged Man charged Abducted girl safe |
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EDMONTON - For the victims of sexual assaults at the hands of a St. Albert man, a decades-old quest for justice took a major step forward when RCMP arrested 85-year-old Anton Paul Rapati after he was spotted by an older sister of one of the children he allegedly abused. After hiding out in the Netherlands for over fifteen years, Anton Rapati was arrested at his brother's house the day after a woman spotted the senior attending a St. Albert church. (Deadmonton) MORE: 85-year old arrest for decades old assaults Anton Rapati interview Indignity to human body |
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TORONTO - The actor formerly featured in a series of popular commercials for Alexander Keith's beer has been sentenced to 21 months in jail for possession of child pornography and making it available online. In addition to the 21-month sentence, the judge imposed a term of three-years probation where Robert Smith is not allowed to possess a computer or any similar device except at work and cannot see his children unless another adult is present. (CanWest) Actor gets jail Guilty plea |
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Ex-youth worker facing sex charges REGINA - RCMP investigators are looking into the possibility more victims may be identified after announcing that dozens of sexual assault charges have been laid against Ronald Anthony Sawa, a former employee of the Saskatchewan Boys Centre - now known as the Paul Dojack Youth Centre. Sawa, 58, was arrested by the RCMP Friday morning at his Regina home and taken into custody after a four-year investigation resulting in 39 counts of sexual assault involving 18 complainants. (Regina Leader Post) |
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CALGARY - A pedophile who continues to blame the victim for his actions has been sentenced to seven years in prison. On Thursday, provincial court Judge Sandra Hamilton said Khatab Ismail's evidence was "completely unworthy of belief," giving him the maximum sentence sought by Crown prosecutor Gord Haight. (Calgary Herald) |
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VICTORIA - BC Supreme Court Justice Robert Johnston has sentenced Saanich pedophile Otto Edward Schneider to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting three young girls. To recognize the harm done to each child, Johnston imposed three consecutive four-year-sentences -- one for each of Schneider's victims. (Victoria Times Colonist) |
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QUEBEC CITY - An 8-year-old boy who was grabbed off the street in broad daylight, stuffed into the trunk of a car and later locked in an oil drum was saved by quick-thinking witnesses who alerted police to the abduction. (CanWest) MORE: Abducted boy rescued after witnesses' quick thinking |
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KINGSTON - A convicted internet predator who victimized two Alberta teens by trying to get them to perform sexual acts on camera has been given day parole after serving less than a year of his nine-year sentence Joshua Innes was 25 when he was sentenced last August after pleading guilty to two counts of child internet luring, two counts of extortion and one count of distributing child pornography. (CBC) PREVIOUS: Predator loses appeal for less time |
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TORONTO - A judge made it clear he had no patience for the crimes of a former Toronto jail guard and volunteer soccer coach who implored a woman to sexually abuse her grandchildren in front of a webcam. "Cases involving the use of the Internet as a means of finding, collecting and disseminating child pornography appear in our courts with depressing regularity," Ontario Superior Court Justice David McCombs said before handing Matthew Hughes a 15-month sentence for the possession and distribution of child pornography, charges to which he pleaded guilty in March. (Toronto Star) |
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Sexual assaults to cost couple $415,000 VANCOUVER - An elderly couple has been ordered to pay $415,000 in damages to their niece who was sexually assaulted by her uncle - abetted by his wife - more than 40 years ago after she lived with them following the death of her mother. Joginder Singh Bains and his wife Darshan - wealthy farmers - denied being involved in sexually assaulting Karamjeet Kour Singh (now known as Vicki Waters) in a civil action last year but BC Supreme Court Justice Nancy Morrison found the pair responsible. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: Sikh priest assaulted niece numerous times Judge praises courage of abuse victim Uncle, aunt should pay for sex abuse |
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Child-porn ring smashed with 27 arrests MONTREAL - Twenty-seven men from various parts of the province face child pornography charges after police discovered a group was using a website based in Germany to trade computer files containing porn. (Montreal Gazette) |
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TURNER VALLEY - A host of child pornography-related charges have been laid against an employee at a school on a native reserve south of Calgary. Turner Valley RCMP launched an investigation on June 13, after "questionable" photos were found near a printer, at Eden Valley School. Mounties then searched a home on the reserve, finding further evidence of child exploitation crimes. On June 20, police arrested Leon Rider, a 42-year-old man from the Eden Valley Reserve. (Calgary Herald) |
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MONTREAL - A 31-year-old Belgian man who lured a 13-year-old girl over the Internet pleaded guilty to six sex-related charges Friday. Vincent Duval, 31, planned to take the girl to an Amish community in Ontario, where their relationship would be socially acceptable, Quebec Court was told. (CanWest) PREVIOUS: Belgian arraigned Missing girl found Belgian man accused of luring girl |
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SASKATOON - An international child pornography investigation with tentacles all over the world reached Saskatoon last week with the arrest of a local man on a single charge of possessing images of child abuse. Malcolm John Rollins, 52, made his first appearance before a judge in provincial court. The charge stems from information provided to city police by investigators working on Operation Koala, a massive effort that began in Australia in 2006. (Saskatoon Star Phoenix) |
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HALIFAX - A former Langley teacher who sexually assaulted five of his students has been sentenced to 25 months in prison for sexually assaulting an eight-year-old boy in Halifax. Roger Edouard Mercier, 39, struck up a relationship with the boy's mother and began preying on the youngster. (Vancouver Province) |
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OTTAWA - A pedophile considered at high risk to reoffend is free after the Supreme Court of Canada Thursday overturned his latest convictions for sexually abusing children. Dieter Helmut Wittwer, 74, from the Kelowna area, was convicted by lower courts in 2005 of molesting three kids, and received a two-year jail sentence and 10 years' probation. The sentence no longer applies. (Vancouver Province) JUDGMENT: 2008 SCC 33 |
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TORONTO - For Brian Brown, "the world crashed" when he was arrested on charges of child porn - the very crime he says he was trying to fight. The computer expert claims he was volunteering with the Toronto police to develop software aimed at combating child porn online. But officers with the OPP and York Region police paint a more sinister picture of the Richmond Hill man. They say they found pornographic images of children on his home computer and that he was distributing them. (Toronto Star) |
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VANCOUVER - A Chilliwack physiotherapist caught in an international child pornography sting was sentenced to 60 days in jail to be served on weekends. Laurence Wong, who pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography after police found 26,000 illegal images on his computer and several hundred child porn videos, will serve the 60 days on Friday through Sunday. (Vancouver Province) |
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Man admits to child abuse, bestiality CALGARY - The Crown is looking at having a former city man declared a long-term offender or dangerous offender after he admitted to sexually abusing an eight-year-old girl, bestiality and possessing child pornography. Gary Wayne Todd, 53, who entered the courtroom in a wheelchair, pleaded guilty through defence lawyer Mark Gottlieb on Monday to charges relating to all three sets of allegations. (Calgary Herald) |
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AMSTETTEN - For 24 years Josef Fritzl led a double life: above ground he played the upstanding family man, while in the basement he imprisoned and raped his daughter. Details are slowly emerging of how he ruthlessly planned his terrible crime. (Spiegel) PREVIOUS: Elaborate cellar revealed Fritzl 'will plead insanity' Portrait of suspect Fritzl incest case |
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Online sex predator jailed for 3 years KINGSTON, Ont. - Red-faced and unwilling to make eye contact with anyone in court, a 23-year-old sexual predator apologized to the dozens of teenage girls he had fooled into performing degrading acts in front of their webcams. "I want to say I'm sorry to the victims and families and I hope that they can move on now," Mark Bedford said before he was sentenced to three years in a federal penitentiary. (CanWest) MORE: Canadian student jailed over porn |
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TORONTO - A 23-year-old Toronto man has been charged after a police investigation into sexually explicit online conversations with a child. An investigation led to police searching a Toronto home yesterday, where a man was arrested, Toronto police said today. Tyler Haas, 23, faces four charges, including luring a child. (CP) |
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Man draws two-year term for molesting niece EDMONTON - A Spruce Grove man was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for sexually interfering with his young niece and possessing and accessing child pornography. He cannot be named to protect the identity of the girl, who shares his last name. (Edmonton Journal) |
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Child porn detainee jailed 6 months TORONTO – A judge has jailed one of the last Toronto men to be sentenced in a massive international child pornography sweep called Project Snowball. Superior Court Justice Robert Clark said that sentencing Mario Digenio, 62, to house arrest – as suggested by the defence – would simply be sending him back to the same home from which he viewed the "vile and degrading material." Instead, Clark sent the slight, frail-looking restaurant worker to prison for six months, followed by three years probation. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Global child porn probe led to false accusations |
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Teacher faces child porn charges A Prince George, BC high school teacher has been arrested and charged with possessing and distributing child pornography. News of the arrest of Michael Gardiner, 60, a veteran English teacher, spread quickly through the 1,500 students of Prince George Secondary School. (CTV) |
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Father admits sexually abusing daughter CALGARY - A father has admitted he repeatedly sexually abused and took degrading pornographic pictures of his young daughter over a three-year period. The 36-year-old man, who cannot be named in order to protect his daughter's identity, began the abuse when he slapped her in the head and pushed her into walls when she was 10, then sexually assaulted her as often as four times a month when she was 11 and 12. (Calgary Herald) |
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VANCOUVER - A former BC lawyer with a long history of involvement with children's groups has pleaded guilty to six sexual offences against kids dating back to the 1970s. Gordon Hazlewood, 73, of Abbotsford, pleaded guilty in North Vancouver Provincial Court to four charges of gross indecency and two charges of indecent assault against boys, who were all under 14 at the time of the offences. The charges date back to events that happened between August 1969 and November 1977. (North Shore News) |
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TORONTO - A massive child porn sweep that netted 23 people across the province this week is just the tip of the iceberg and a harbinger of many more arrests to come, police say. Using 25 search warrants, police forces from London to Ottawa and as far north as Red Lake stormed into homes Monday, arresting 22 people, including a 28-year-old woman from Whitby and a young offender from Hamilton. (Toronto Star) MORE: Child porn bust |
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VERNON - A BC man was convicted for the horrific kidnapping, drugging, and rape of an 11-year-old girl. Paul LePage was found guilty in BC Supreme Court for sexual assault causing bodily harm and abduction. He was also found guilty of giving the little girl a drug to commit an indictable offence. (CTV) PREVIOUS: Guilty of kidnapping and rape Prosecutors praise victim's composure Prints, DNA key: Crown |
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Child molester draws 9-month sentence DRUMHELLER, AB - A judge in Drumheller handed a man a nine-month sentence Friday for molesting three young boys. The offender, who was 17 when he committed the crimes, will spend the first six months in closed custody and the remaining third of his sentence in the community under supervision. (Calgary Herald) |
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Man drugged, sexually assaulted me, girl says on tape VERNON - It was supposed to be a quick trip to a local video store, but on her way home an 11-year-old girl was abducted, drugged and repeatedly sexually assaulted before being released 36 hours later. Yesterday, for the first time since her abduction in 2006, she told her story publicly -- in the form of a videotaped police interview conducted shortly after she was found. The tape was played in BC Supreme Court during the trial for Paul Robert Lepage, 56, who's charged with aggravated sexual assault, kidnapping and administering a drug to commit an indictable offence. (CanWest) |
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TORONTO - A 57-year-old Brampton man was arrested on charges of luring, the third child pornography-related arrest in the GTA this week. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: RCMP promise more arrests Edmonton man charged Esquimalt man arrested 2 Vancouver men face charges Network dismantled Britons arrested |
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RED DEER - A 13-year-old boy has been charged after a younger boy was sexually assaulted on a toboggan hill in Red Deer, Alta., police said. The RCMP said they arrested the teen, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, on Wednesday and charged him with one count of sexual assault in the case involving the six-year-old. (CBC) |
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PEMBROKE - A prominent Ottawa Valley priest whose service to the Catholic Church was rewarded with a Vatican post was sentenced to four years in prison yesterday for sexually molesting 13 young boys. Reading from a handwritten statement, Msgr. Bernard Prince, 72, showed no emotion as he apologized to his victims for his "legal and moral" wrongdoing after being found guilty of one charge of indecent assault and pleading guilty to 12 more charges of indecent and sexual assault. Court heard the assaults took place between 1964 and 1984. (Ottawa Citizen) |
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Suspect in 1979 BC rape returned CALGARY - A US man accused of raping a nine-year-old girl in BC will be extradited from Nevada to stand trial in Canada. Wilbur James Ventling, who went by the alias John James Stewart, was captured by U.S. marshals in Carson City, Nev., in October after 28 years on the lam. Ventling, 63, had previously been arrested for 10 sexual offences in Calgary against young girls ages five to 13, alleged to have occurred between 1978 and 1979. (Calgary Herald) PREVIOUS: Man arrested in 1970s child rapes Rape suspect nabbed in US |
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Pedophile declared dangerous offender A convicted pedophile who refuses therapy and admits to a strong attraction to young girls was declared a dangerous offender yesterday as an ongoing risk to the community. A decision written by Justice Gerald Morin found Paul Delorme, 38, meets the criteria for several reasons. (Ottawa Citizen) |
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Ex-scout leader faces new charge of sexual assault VICTORIA - A second alleged sexual-assault victim has come forward in the case of John Gabriel Viszlai, a longtime Scouts Canada volunteer who was first charged last July. Viszlai, then 49, was arrested July 11 at a Scouts jamboree on the Sunshine Coast and later charged in connection with an alleged sexual assault on a 10-year-old boy from 15 years ago. (Victoria Times Colonist) PREVIOUS: Scouts volunteer faces child sex charges Scouts volunteer in BC charged with sex assault |
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Ex-pastor jailed for sex abuse WOODSTOCK - A Calgarian convicted of molesting a four-year-old Illinois girl blamed the child for acting provocatively sexually toward him before a judge sentenced him to three years in prison. Kenneth Cooke, 73, told Judge Joseph Condon in a US courtroom Friday he tried to avoid the encounters. (Calgary Herald) MORE: Molester claims 4-year-old provoked him |
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Mountie faces child porn charge A North Vancouver RCMP member has been charged with possession of child pornography, a fact the Mounties kept quiet for more than four months. Court documents show that Const. Andrew Ugrica was charged on Aug. 10 with one count of possession of child pornography. (Vancouver Sun) |
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Fugitive caught by calling mom CALGARY - Just hours after allegedly stealing a car in central Alberta, police say an 18-year-old man called his mother from his cellphone to say he'd abducted a six-year-old boy. Little did he know his mother wasn't the only one listening in. (Calgary Herald) PREVIOUS: Police rescue boy |
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Salvation Army on hook for sex abuse: court The Salvation Army is responsible for sexual abuse committed by one of its officers, a Newfoundland Supreme Court judge has ruled. Gerald Fifield, now 64, has admitted he used pornography to convince a then nine-year-old boy that sex between adults and children is acceptable. The abuse started in the 1970s, after Fifield was posted in a small Newfoundland community. (CBC) |
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BC teacher guilty of sex assault in Nova Scotia DARTMOUTH - A notorious teacher convicted of sexually touching five young female students when he taught in Langley in 2000 has been convicted of sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl in Nova Scotia. Roger Edouard Mercier, 38, of Dartmouth, was convicted last week in Nova Scotia Provincial Court of sexual assault. (Province) PREVIOUS: Former teacher guilty of sexually assaulting girl, 7 |
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Delta teacher arrested on child porn charges VANCOUVER - A Delta teacher who has pleaded guilty to charges of voyeurism in Washington state was arrested when he returned to Canada Wednesday and charged with possession of child pornography. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: 7 month sentence, deportation for BC teacher BC teacher pleads guilty to voyeurism BC teacher faces 15 counts of voyeurism in US Teen honored after tip nets alleged peeper Police seize evidence from teacher's home Teacher accused of voyeurism |
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Dealing with the devil WINNIPEG - Peter Whitmore could be the poster boy for Canada's revolving door of justice. His record for sex crimes dates back to 1989. And while Whitmore, 36, has spent almost 13 of the past 14 years in jail, his brief tastes of freedom have been horrific. He has been released five times, always to reoffend. He has victimized at least a dozen children, probably more. He has given vague details about some attacks, but has not been charged with them. PREVIOUS: Life sentence for sadistic assaults 'It ends here. It ends now' Sex assault horror on boys recounted Timeline of events Crown won't compromise in pursuing pedophile RCMP letter to pedophile missing Crown's signature Crime scene Whitmore charged with kidnapping, assault Boys safe after standoff ends peacefully |
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'You are the architect of this horrific crime' Randy Parish sat statue still in the prisoner's dock yesterday as his world collapsed around him at 4:45pm, the moment a jury declared him guilty of murder in the first degree and condemned him to life in prison for ordering the contract killings of young Chelsea and Cole Rodgers. (Ottawa Citizen) PREVIOUS: 'They'll never see the light of day' How one man's twisted lies ended in murder Internal police file found in apartment of accused 'Why I did it, I still don't know,' says man accused in fatal fire Mother tells of horror Children killed to keep pedophile's secret |
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Police shifting through wave of new tips VICTORIA - A plea for information and a sizable reward have Victoria police sifting through 81 tips from the public, a remarkable response considering the case is 15 years old. Police announced last week that reward money had grown to $100,000 for information that would solve the mystery of Michael Dunahee's disappearance in March 1991. (Times Colonist) PREVIOUS: $100,000 reward for missing boy |
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