More Child Porn arrests in Guelph!!

And here we go again folks! Don't think this stuff is happening in our own backyards?? Think again! Great job done by the police force Ontario wide, working together to get these guys! Saving kids as well!!

Here's an article from the Guelph Mercury below:

Guelph Police part of provincial crackdown that leads to 31 arrests, 93 charges
February 06, 2009
Scott Tracey

Two Guelph men and one from Palmerston were among more than 30 people arrested this week in what police are calling the largest co-ordinated crackdown on child pornography in Ontario history.
At a news conference in Toronto yesterday morning, police said they had laid 93 charges against 31 people. The investigation, headed by the OPP, involved a total of 19 police agencies including the Guelph Police Service.
Constable Bruce Hunter of the Guelph Police technical crimes unit said two local residents were identified as part of the investigation a couple of months ago.
Hunter said the probe specifically targeted users of peer-to-peer file sharing programs who were making child pornography available to other users over the Internet.
Yesterday, 23-year-old Matthew Bates of Bailey Avenue, 57-year-old Karl James of Conroy Crescent and Paul Freestone, 43, of Palmerston each appeared in Guelph bail court.
Bates was released on $2,500 bail and ordered to live with his mother and obey various terms, including bans on using computers and going to schools, playgrounds or parks.
Bates will be back in court Feb. 23.
James and Freestone were each expected to return to bail court this morning.
Justice of the peace Avis Rodney imposed publication bans on the evidence heard against each of the accused.
Hunter said there could be more arrests in Guelph, noting local officers and investigators from the OPP are conducting child porn investigations every day.
"There are certainly more that we're working on," the constable said.
The Provincial Strategy to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation on the Internet, involving the OPP and 18 partner police services, was formed in August 2006 following a request from the provincial government to develop a co-ordinated, provincewide approach to battling Internet-based crimes against children.
During the recent investigation, police rescued two children -- a four-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl -- they allege were the victims of sexual abuse.
"Unfortunately, I believe there's thousands of children we're not getting to, and that's particularly difficult," Inspector Andy Stewart, who manages the OPP's child sexual exploitation section, said at the news conference.
In Guelph, Hunter said those arrested this week "is a substantial number of people, but it certainly also shows the scope of this problem."
With Files From the Canadian Press

BY THE NUMBERS
A provincial crackdown of child pornography this week has reached almost every corner of Ontario. The 31 people originate from a number of cities, including:
London (4), Ottawa (3), Guelph (2), Windsor (2), Mississauga (2), Toronto (2), Sudbury (2), Niagara Falls (1), Kingston (1), Wasaga Beach (1), Welland (1), Woodbridge (1), Palmerston (1), Richmond Hill (1), Thunder Bay (1), Brantford (1), Matheson (1), Oshawa (1), Hamilton (1), Elmira (1), Burlington (1).