57 arrests in Canada kiddie porn bust
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p2pnet news view | Crime:- Fifty-seven Canadian men have been arrested in the country’s largest-ever online kiddie porn investigation.
Called Project Salvo, it was co-ordinated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police through its National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre, worked with 30 law enforcement agencies throughout Canada, says the Toronto Star.
Some children were removed from their homes as a result of the investigation, says the story, going on
“Following the arrests, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection launched a child sexual abuse prevention kit to help parents and teachers deal with issues related to sexual abuse.”
More than 130 computers were seized together with dozens of computer hard drives and thousands of computer storage devices, the story is RCMP sergeant Dave Fox saying, also stating:
“The investigation into Internet-based child sexual abuse is the largest co-ordinated effort of its kind, involving 23 investigators, 71 search warrants, 100 criminal charges, and arrests in every province and territory. Charges include sexual assault, sexual interference and possessing, making and distributing child pornography.”
News 1130 has Rosiane Racine (right) of British Colombia’s Integrated Child Exploitation Team saying victims ranged in age from teens to, “infants with umbilical cords still showing”.
“Racine says there’s no indication that the suspects knew each other,” says the story.
Toronto Star – March 27, 2009
News 1130 – ‘Project Salvo’: Four men from Lower Mainland arrested in Canada-wide child porn stingMarch 26, 2009
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March 27th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Finally the mounties are doing their job right.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Before you say that, let’s see how many innocent people they have caught. Don’t get me wrong. I hate child porn as much as anyone but after Dziekanski, the Mounties have gone way down on my scale.
March 28th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Hrmmm…. She dosent seem too happy about it
I mean Kiddie Porn Seriously?
Thats a crime Now? LOL What about killing someone?
Oh, wait my bad No fun in arresting someone for murder but possession of child porn
What has society turned into!
March 28th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Guys, come on. This isn’t some random internet user anonymously downloading child porn for his own personal use, it’s an act of physical abuse on a massive scale. I don’t think it makes any sense to arrest someone purely on charges for “posession” of said material they had nothing to do with; and I think it’s gotten ridiculously absurd as to what constitute a child porn offense nowadays—–teen girls facing sexual offense charges for emailing risque (but in no way pornographic) photos of THEMSELVES; cartoonists being labeled as sex offenders just for drawing pictures of naked kids from their imagination—–but anyone who actively engages in child molestation or the production and distribution of child porn deserves the worst sentence possible.
March 28th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
” Oh, wait my bad No fun in arresting someone for murder but possession of child porn
What has society turned into! ”
What exactly are you ?
” but anyone who actively engages in child molestation or the production and distribution of child porn deserves the worst sentence possible. ”
This IS a good thing
March 28th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
I have grown skeptical of all claims related to child pornography. The truth is that innocence or guilt is no longer important to modern “justice systems” and neither is the extent of involvement in any given offense. Maximizing prosecutions, both in quality and quantity, is the ultimate goal. Cases are brought against innocents and plead out all the time in lieu of enduring trial; in fact, it’s the norm now. I can’t have faith in “the justice system” when the goal is maximizing prosecutions over finding true justice, and while some of these people may be guilty of criminal acts, I have trouble believing that all of them have to be violent child molesters simply by virtue of an arrest. Arrest =/= conviction, and conviction has much looser requirements than it used to even 20 years ago, ESPECIALLY when children are mentioned.
March 29th, 2009 at 8:59 am
@5
Last time I checked Im human
I didnt say anything about molestation, I was talking about possession this is getting crazy the girls mentioned in a prev p2pnet post are going to be punished for sending nudie pics What? the DA is more concerned chasing teens than murderers or molesters?
Possession is a joke but Abuse shouldnt be tolerated
March 29th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
I agree with Comeoncomcast. They even stretch the laws to include cartoons and drawings that show nudity of a fake individual that “appears” underage. I have no clue what the real intention of the DA is behind these assaults, but arresting underage women for showing nude pictures of themselves does not show to me that they are interested in the safety of the children. If they were, then why would they put those children in the same jail cell as the child rapers to begin with?
March 30th, 2009 at 12:30 am
My guess is that our society has become so terrified of underage nudity, that they’ll label anything that remotely falls into that category as child porn simply to make an example of it; whether it’s a cartoon, a teen girl emailing nude or semi-nude photos of themselves—–it’s gotten ridiculous. I remember watching one of those family documentary shows on TLC several years ago, when a dad was toilet training his kid. They showed the scene in full, but censored the boy’s genitals, and immediately I thought, “It’s a toddler taking a leak. Who could possibly find that offensive?”
I think it’s also really hypocritical that our society doesn’t tolerate the examples mentioned, yet still allows pre-adolescent girls to be sexualized in programs like Toddlers And Tiaras, or have sex marketed to them through the media. It may not be porn, but it’s a lot more destructive for a kid’s sexual and mental health than allowing them to send racy photos of themselves or watch x-rated cartoons.