A child-pornography investigation in Surrey, B.C. that has led to one arrest and the "rescue" of seven children is part of a broader investigation that spans the globe, police announced Friday.
According to RCMP, police received information on Jan. 22 from an international source alleging that a Surrey man and other individuals from around the world were exchanging images and videos of children being sexually abused.
That same day, police searched a Surrey home and seized electronic and computer devices.
A 36-year-old man was subsequently arrested and charged with a number of child pornography-related charges, including sexual assault, invitation to sexual touching, possession of child pornography, distribution of child pornography and making child pornography.
Six local children and a child in Ontario between the ages of five and 11 were rescued as part of the investigation, authorities said.
"Our intervention was such that they will no longer be abused," said RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Annie Linteau.
"I can't really say where they are at the moment, other than to say that they are safe."
The suspect was scheduled to appear in court on Friday.
Police said there are a number of investigations worldwide and further arrests are possible.
With files from The Canadian Press By: ctvbc.ca
Date: Friday Feb. 5, 2010 3:10 PM PT
A child-pornography investigation in Surrey, B.C. that has led to one arrest and the "rescue" of seven children is part of a broader investigation that spans the globe, police announced Friday.
According to RCMP, police received information on Jan. 22 from an international source alleging that a Surrey man and other individuals from around the world were exchanging images and videos of children being sexually abused.
That same day, police searched a Surrey home and seized electronic and computer devices.
A 36-year-old man was subsequently arrested and charged with a number of child pornography-related charges, including sexual assault, invitation to sexual touching, possession of child pornography, distribution of child pornography and making child pornography.
Six local children and a child in Ontario between the ages of five and 11 were rescued as part of the investigation, authorities said.
"Our intervention was such that they will no longer be abused," said RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Annie Linteau.
"I can't really say where they are at the moment, other than to say that they are safe."
The suspect was scheduled to appear in court on Friday.
Police said there are a number of investigations worldwide and further arrests are possible.
With files from The Canadian Press
Friday, February 5, 2010
Monday, November 9, 2009
Meeting Tonight! - Protecting Children!
Guelph Neighbourhood Watch Group. AGM - 2009
Tonight is the Annual General Meeting and they have a guest speaker, Constable Bruce Hunter, head of Technical Crimes here in Guelph.
He's going to be talking about internet crimes - especially against children.
It starts at 7pm (Nov 9th, 2009) and will only be about an hour long.
It's at the Guelph Police station downtown.
Thanks!
Tonight is the Annual General Meeting and they have a guest speaker, Constable Bruce Hunter, head of Technical Crimes here in Guelph.
He's going to be talking about internet crimes - especially against children.
It starts at 7pm (Nov 9th, 2009) and will only be about an hour long.
It's at the Guelph Police station downtown.
Thanks!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
AGAIN - Listen to 570 News right now!
It's 10:15am on Sept 1st, 2009. Interesting story about a molester of 3 children who is being "outted" by a new website. Take a listen...
Go to http://www.570news.com/ and click on the "listen now" link.
Her website is www.kitchenercreep.com ---> WOW!
Thank you.
Go to http://www.570news.com/ and click on the "listen now" link.
Her website is www.kitchenercreep.com ---> WOW!
Thank you.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Might want to listen to 570 News Right Now!
Go to www.570news.com and click on the "listen live"button. Talking about a pedophile moving to Waterloo.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Mirror Mirror on the Wall, who's the creepiest of them all?
July 21, 2009
Rob O'Flanaganroflanagan
A Guelph man was found guilty after a short trial Tuesday for possession of child pornography. Giulio Carere, 48, will be sentenced on Oct. 7.
A Guelph Police officer with expertise in computer forensic analysis testified Tuesday in Ontario Court of Justice that he discovered 45 child pornography videos on Carere’s home computer.
Justice Norman Douglas ruled there was no doubt the videos were child pornography, and no doubt that Carere downloaded them on to his computer through a peer-to-peer file sharing network.
Under questioning by assistant Crown attorney Murray deVos, Constable Bruce Hunter said the discovery of the videos came after a search warrant was executed and a computer seized at Carere’s home at 44 Manitoba St., in Guelph, in early February, 2008.
The videos depicted explicit sex acts involving primarily girls between the ages of six to 16, testimony in court revealed.
Hunter’s descriptions of some of the videos – with titles such as “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” and “Y07 St. Petersburg” – were disturbing. Some involved sex acts between children, others between adults and children. He said such material is distributed over internet-based peer-to-peer networks free of charge, or “traded as a commodity” over the internet.
Carere was also charged with one count of making available child pornography, but Douglas found him not guilty of the charge.
Dressed in a loose fitting black suit, his thinning hair slicked back, Carere sat in the front row of the courtroom staring directly ahead. At times, his knees twitched, as he listened to Hunter’s testimony.
Carere was arrested as part of a province-wide sweep by law enforcement agencies. It saw 22 people, most of them in southern Ontario, arrested and charged in early 2008. It was the largest coordinated child pornography investigation in Ontario’s history, police officials stated then.
Another Guelph man, Keith Kamenz, 31, was arrested in the same probe. He pled guilty to possession of child pornography in February and was sentenced on April 30 to four months in jail, and three years probation. As part of his sentence, Kamenz was given a 10-year restriction on going into public areas where there are children. He is not allowed to take employment that brings him in contact with children under the age of 16.
As part of his child pornography investigative work, Hunter uses software that allows access to all files on a computer. Even those that have been erased remain embedded in the computer’s hard-drive until such time as they are written over, he told the court.
The child pornography Carere had on his hard-drive was easily accessible, Hunter said. The videos ranged in length from short clips of one or two seconds, to videos of 30 or more minutes. Most of the videos had amateur production qualities, as though shot by a consumer level camcorder, he added.
“It’s sad that this material is out there,” Hunter said in an interview. “It’s sad that we have to keep going through this. There’s a continued demand, and until we can stop the demand we’ll have to go through this. Maybe the demand will go away some day. Let’s hope so.”
Rob O'Flanaganroflanagan
A Guelph man was found guilty after a short trial Tuesday for possession of child pornography. Giulio Carere, 48, will be sentenced on Oct. 7.
A Guelph Police officer with expertise in computer forensic analysis testified Tuesday in Ontario Court of Justice that he discovered 45 child pornography videos on Carere’s home computer.
Justice Norman Douglas ruled there was no doubt the videos were child pornography, and no doubt that Carere downloaded them on to his computer through a peer-to-peer file sharing network.
Under questioning by assistant Crown attorney Murray deVos, Constable Bruce Hunter said the discovery of the videos came after a search warrant was executed and a computer seized at Carere’s home at 44 Manitoba St., in Guelph, in early February, 2008.
The videos depicted explicit sex acts involving primarily girls between the ages of six to 16, testimony in court revealed.
Hunter’s descriptions of some of the videos – with titles such as “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” and “Y07 St. Petersburg” – were disturbing. Some involved sex acts between children, others between adults and children. He said such material is distributed over internet-based peer-to-peer networks free of charge, or “traded as a commodity” over the internet.
Carere was also charged with one count of making available child pornography, but Douglas found him not guilty of the charge.
Dressed in a loose fitting black suit, his thinning hair slicked back, Carere sat in the front row of the courtroom staring directly ahead. At times, his knees twitched, as he listened to Hunter’s testimony.
Carere was arrested as part of a province-wide sweep by law enforcement agencies. It saw 22 people, most of them in southern Ontario, arrested and charged in early 2008. It was the largest coordinated child pornography investigation in Ontario’s history, police officials stated then.
Another Guelph man, Keith Kamenz, 31, was arrested in the same probe. He pled guilty to possession of child pornography in February and was sentenced on April 30 to four months in jail, and three years probation. As part of his sentence, Kamenz was given a 10-year restriction on going into public areas where there are children. He is not allowed to take employment that brings him in contact with children under the age of 16.
As part of his child pornography investigative work, Hunter uses software that allows access to all files on a computer. Even those that have been erased remain embedded in the computer’s hard-drive until such time as they are written over, he told the court.
The child pornography Carere had on his hard-drive was easily accessible, Hunter said. The videos ranged in length from short clips of one or two seconds, to videos of 30 or more minutes. Most of the videos had amateur production qualities, as though shot by a consumer level camcorder, he added.
“It’s sad that this material is out there,” Hunter said in an interview. “It’s sad that we have to keep going through this. There’s a continued demand, and until we can stop the demand we’ll have to go through this. Maybe the demand will go away some day. Let’s hope so.”
Thursday, July 16, 2009
These twins are double the trouble!
Hey kids! Want some piano lessons?
SICK SICK SICK PEOPLE! Here's the article from today's Globe and Mail:
DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY
From Thursday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Thursday, Jul. 16, 2009 04:24AM EDT
Identical twin brothers Ronald and Donald Croft are local D-list celebrities known for living their lives in tandem. They wear their wavy brown hair past their shoulders, dress alike, play in a two-man band, and they've had spot roles in children's television shows and commercials.
Now the 40-year-old brothers have something else to share: They've both been charged with possessing and accessing child pornography.
Detective Constable Jeff Kidd of Toronto's Sex Crimes Unit said police could still charge them with producing child pornography if they discover the brothers knew the victims pictured in the photographs.
He said the men have worked with many children in the entertainment industry, and has asked for anyone with more information to come forward.
Ronald was in an episode of the popular CTV show Degrassi: The Next Generation last December and both brothers appeared in the teen comedy True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet a year ago. Their website, thetwinbrothers.com, also boasts about their roles in the CBC show This Is Wonderland and appearances in commercials for Kellogg's cereal and Adidas.
Police said they were concerned that the brothers have "had access to children" through a piano class run by a family member.
"They've had a lot of contact with kids - let's put it that way," said Det. Constable Kidd.
Seema Jaura, a next-door neighbour, said the twins share a van that has the brothers' names and listings for piano classes and the multilevel marketing company Amway painted on its side.
"Oh, they have piano classes at their home and have a board displayed outside about piano classes," she said.
Toronto police arrested the pair May 28, following a three-year investigation that started outside the country.
Police searched a house on Lupin Drive in Scarborough and seized several hard drives and storage media filled with images of infants to 18-year-olds.
They only announced their arrests yesterday because they had been working with other police units to identify the images and get more information about the twins' backgrounds.
SICK SICK SICK PEOPLE! Here's the article from today's Globe and Mail:
DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY
From Thursday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Thursday, Jul. 16, 2009 04:24AM EDT
Identical twin brothers Ronald and Donald Croft are local D-list celebrities known for living their lives in tandem. They wear their wavy brown hair past their shoulders, dress alike, play in a two-man band, and they've had spot roles in children's television shows and commercials.
Now the 40-year-old brothers have something else to share: They've both been charged with possessing and accessing child pornography.
Detective Constable Jeff Kidd of Toronto's Sex Crimes Unit said police could still charge them with producing child pornography if they discover the brothers knew the victims pictured in the photographs.
He said the men have worked with many children in the entertainment industry, and has asked for anyone with more information to come forward.
Ronald was in an episode of the popular CTV show Degrassi: The Next Generation last December and both brothers appeared in the teen comedy True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet a year ago. Their website, thetwinbrothers.com, also boasts about their roles in the CBC show This Is Wonderland and appearances in commercials for Kellogg's cereal and Adidas.
Police said they were concerned that the brothers have "had access to children" through a piano class run by a family member.
"They've had a lot of contact with kids - let's put it that way," said Det. Constable Kidd.
Seema Jaura, a next-door neighbour, said the twins share a van that has the brothers' names and listings for piano classes and the multilevel marketing company Amway painted on its side.
"Oh, they have piano classes at their home and have a board displayed outside about piano classes," she said.
Toronto police arrested the pair May 28, following a three-year investigation that started outside the country.
Police searched a house on Lupin Drive in Scarborough and seized several hard drives and storage media filled with images of infants to 18-year-olds.
They only announced their arrests yesterday because they had been working with other police units to identify the images and get more information about the twins' backgrounds.
Friday, May 1, 2009
So this is just gross. 2 years less a day? REALLY?
Lenient sentences do not go over well with me. In fact they don't go over well with most people...except judges apparently. Well, not all judges I guess, but this sentence is just plain wrong. Using the excuse of "his upbringing" as an argument to lower the sentence is again, just plain wrong. I know this doesn't have anything to do with child porn as the Mennonites don't have the Internet do they??? I mean no electricity to plug in the computer to look at child porn - you would think these types of actions by this guy wouldn't happen. These kids, these poor kids. I'm grossed out by the actions of this guy. Here's an article by the Guelph Mercury with the details:
April 23, 2009
It was hard for a judge to ignore a young Mennonite man's upbringing when he decided against sending him to a federal penitentiary.
Justice Norman Douglas sentenced a 21-year-old Waterloo Region man to serve two years less a day at the Ontario Correctional Institute in Brampton yesterday.
The man, who can't be named to protect the identity of the victims, pleaded guilty in January to two counts of sexual interference.
"I do that knowing it's an extremely light sentence," Douglas said of his decision. "It is at the lowest rung of the ladder."
Two years less a day is the maximum reformatory sentence that would keep the 21-year-old out of a federal penitentiary, Douglas said.
If anyone feels he's wrong, his decision can be appealed with the Ontario Court of Appeal, Douglas said.
The judge explained that it's not that he's treating the Mennonite community in a special manner, but he does have to take into account the young man's "upbringing and naiveté."
"What would happen to him if he went to a federal penitentiary?"
Between January 2004 and December 2005, the Mennonite man allegedly tried 11 times to have sexual intercourse with a five-year-old girl, according to court documents.
The accused lifted up the girl's dress, rubbed against her, ejaculated on her and tried to penetrate her.
Between January and September 2008, there were five occurrences with his seven-year-old cousin where the accused exposed himself and tried to penetrate her as well.
In March, court heard, the Mennonite man had been excommunicated within his community, meaning he couldn't take communion at church and was shunned at social situations.
Several community supporters, three women in floor-length black gowns and white headpieces, as well as eight men in black suits, came to hear the judge's decision yesterday. When leaving the courthouse, they politely declined to comment.
Douglas also ordered the Mennonite man to serve three years of probation when he was released. He is to stay away from public parks, swimming areas, daycare centres and other similar places where there would be children under 14.
tdharmarajah@guelphmercury.com
April 23, 2009
It was hard for a judge to ignore a young Mennonite man's upbringing when he decided against sending him to a federal penitentiary.
Justice Norman Douglas sentenced a 21-year-old Waterloo Region man to serve two years less a day at the Ontario Correctional Institute in Brampton yesterday.
The man, who can't be named to protect the identity of the victims, pleaded guilty in January to two counts of sexual interference.
"I do that knowing it's an extremely light sentence," Douglas said of his decision. "It is at the lowest rung of the ladder."
Two years less a day is the maximum reformatory sentence that would keep the 21-year-old out of a federal penitentiary, Douglas said.
If anyone feels he's wrong, his decision can be appealed with the Ontario Court of Appeal, Douglas said.
The judge explained that it's not that he's treating the Mennonite community in a special manner, but he does have to take into account the young man's "upbringing and naiveté."
"What would happen to him if he went to a federal penitentiary?"
Between January 2004 and December 2005, the Mennonite man allegedly tried 11 times to have sexual intercourse with a five-year-old girl, according to court documents.
The accused lifted up the girl's dress, rubbed against her, ejaculated on her and tried to penetrate her.
Between January and September 2008, there were five occurrences with his seven-year-old cousin where the accused exposed himself and tried to penetrate her as well.
In March, court heard, the Mennonite man had been excommunicated within his community, meaning he couldn't take communion at church and was shunned at social situations.
Several community supporters, three women in floor-length black gowns and white headpieces, as well as eight men in black suits, came to hear the judge's decision yesterday. When leaving the courthouse, they politely declined to comment.
Douglas also ordered the Mennonite man to serve three years of probation when he was released. He is to stay away from public parks, swimming areas, daycare centres and other similar places where there would be children under 14.
tdharmarajah@guelphmercury.com
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