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2010-02-05T15:29:00.000-08:00

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

Meeting Tonight! - Protecting Children!

2009-11-09T08:55:00.000-08:00

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!

AGAIN - Listen to 570 News right now!

2009-09-01T07:14:00.000-07:00

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.

Might want to listen to 570 News Right Now!

2009-08-31T06:41:00.000-07:00

Go to www.570news.com and click on the "listen live"button. Talking about a pedophile moving to Waterloo.

Mirror Mirror on the Wall, who's the creepiest of them all?

2009-07-22T15:05:00.000-07:00

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.”

These twins are double the trouble!

2009-07-16T07:31:00.000-07:00

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.

So this is just gross. 2 years less a day? REALLY?

2009-05-01T12:26:00.000-07:00

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

Largest arrest of Child Porn etc...

2009-03-26T10:36:00.001-07:00

Don't know much yet but I just heard on the news that the largest coordinated arrests across Canada has done well. Over 100 arrests. Stay tuned...

Should we ban porn at libraries?

2009-02-13T12:13:00.000-08:00

Gee, let me think about that.....ummm....YES!

Check out this article:

Cambridge City council wants the province to do something it can't: force the city's public library to block pornography on its Internet computers.
Cambridge has the only library system in Waterloo Region that doesn't filter at least some of its internet work stations.
The library board twice rejected public calls to use Internet filters in fall 2008. Instead, the board voted to send a letter to parents of all young library patrons, explaining there are no filters.
As well, the board promised to review filtering software regularly and reconsider the issue when the technology is more reliable.
In January, city council rejected a call to force the library board to buy Internet filtering software.
The board runs library operations under provincial law; all the city does is provide operating funds.
The city library shouldn't condone viewing of pornography -- especially child pornography -- said Reverend Robert Merritt of First United Church.
He called on the city to join its white ribbon campaign calling on the province to change the rules.
"Pornography hurts. That's why it's so important why our Ontario libraries everywhere place filters on their computers to prevent the viewing of obscene material or downloading of child pornography," he told council.
In 2004, a Cambridge man was arrested for using a city library computer to download child pornography, he said.
Council voted 4-3 to support a motion by Councillor Ben Tucci calling for the province to force libraries to use Internet blocking software.
Tucci, councillors Rick Cowsill and Karl Kiefer, and Mayor Doug Craig voted for the provincial review. Councillors Pam Wolf, Gary Price and Linda Whetham opposed the motion.

Do you think tougher laws are needed??? I do!

2009-02-13T06:01:00.000-08:00

Again, Scott Tracey, a reporter for the Guelph Mercury, has written a fantastic article about the new legislation coming forward regarding the option of tapping into the internet to monitor online communications. But for good reason folks...

Here's the article:

The online world is starting to overlap with my offline world where my kids are concerned, and I'm feeling a bit freaked out by it.
A couple of months ago my 14-year-old son, Dylan, joined Facebook, and he's routinely surfing the Internet with his hand-held gaming system.
More recently my daughter Sophie's Grade 4 class launched an online reading blog on which they can share views about the books they are currently reading with whoever stops by to take a look.
Now, the reading blog contains no last names, and all posts and comments are vetted by her teacher before they are published. But in signing the permission form a couple of weeks ago, some part of me acknowledged doing so would ever so slightly thin the wall of protection we've subconsciously built around all three kids, and the two girls in particular.
I acknowledge I am perhaps more sensitive about these things than a lot of parents. Spending every day for five years in court will do that to you.
But there are very real and very dangerous threats to our children in this community, as there are in every community.
Recent events, including the arrests of three local men in the largest child pornography investigation in Ontario history, demonstrate how immediate this threat can be.
It was against this backdrop that the federal government confirmed this week it is preparing legislation that could force Internet providers to let the police eavesdrop on emails and electronic chat forums.
Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan told a Commons committee the new legislation is required because the law has not kept up with technology.
"We have legislation covering wiretap and surveillance that was designed for the era of the rotary phone," Van Loan said.
The law would allow police, once they've jumped through all the hoops necessary to win court approval, to tap Internet service exchanges in the same way current laws allow them to physically intercept telephone calls through the use of wiretaps.
"If somebody's engaging in illegal activities on the Internet, whether it be the exploitation of children, distributing illegal child pornography, conducting some kind of fraud, simple things like getting (a) username and address should be fairly standard, simple practice," Van Loan said. "We need to provide police with tools to be able to get that information so that they can carry out these investigations."
Expect opposition to the legislation.
Former prime minister Paul Martin attempted to introduce similar measures in 2005, but the so-called Lawful Access Bill died on the order paper amid a flurry of negative reaction from the public. Peter MacKay, who was then the Conservatives' justice critic and is now a member of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cabinet, spoke out against the Liberal initiative more than three years ago.
But I think the Conservatives have a shot at passing the new regs this time.
Cybercrime is on the increase, and it is more apparent all the time police do not have the tools to keep pace with the bad guys.
This won't stop the civil libertarians, of course, who have already begun to dig deep into the rhetoric bucket with talk of Big Brother and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
On one feedback forum yesterday, a commenter named Logan panned the proposed bill and called the Internet "the last place of freedom we have."
Hogwash.
Besides the obvious -- that virtually nothing on the Internet is even remotely private -- this legislation will affect only those who are breaking the law.
If you're among the vast majority of Internet users who play within the confines of the law, you will likely not ever know this law is in place. For those engaged in those activities Van Loan spelled out, the legislation can't come soon enough.
Scott Tracey's column normally appears Fridays. He can be reached at 519-823-6068 or via email at stracey@guelphmercury.com.

More info on the June Ave School situation

2009-02-13T05:55:00.000-08:00

In today's Mercury folks. From reporter Scott Tracey:

Deon Ellsworth was shocked this week to learn a suspect in a child pornography case lives near the elementary school his daughters attend.
"I was kind of shocked that they would let him live in a school area," Ellsworth said yesterday as he waited in his truck in front of June Avenue Public School for his daughters, aged six and nine. "My wife was really upset about it."
Students at the kindergarten to Grade 6 school brought home a letter Wednesday from principal Andrew Creighton.
The letter, which was actually written by school board communications officer Maggie McFadzen, acknowledges the suspect lives near the school.
"While this is an unsettling situation, we will continue to keep the safety of our students foremost in everything we do at June Avenue school," the letter reads.
One concerned parent provided the letter to community activist Cam Guthrie, who posted it on his blog, www.stopchildporn.ca.
McFadzen said a few concerned parents spoke to Creighton after reading about the case in the newspaper "and we put the letter out to inform the school community that we are on our guard.
"It was simply a letter to reassure the school community," McFadzen said.
But Ellsworth was not reassured.
"It's pretty disturbing," he said, adding he learned from speaking to other parents that the suspect lives across from a park about 600 metres from the school "and a lot of kids go there to play, especially in the nicer weather."
Fellow parent Kim Brenner was similarly disturbed by the news.
"Of course it concerns me that a person with that charge is in the area," said Brenner, whose daughter attends June Avenue. "Of course."
Brenner noted it is fortunate police are aware of the suspect, who is free on $2,500 bail with a long list of conditions, including a ban on being near parks, playgrounds and schools.
The suspect was one of three area men arrested last week as part of a massive provincewide child pornography investigation; the largest of its kind in Ontario history.

Olympian Charged with Child Porn Offences

2009-02-12T17:36:00.000-08:00

Another Great Role Model?

TORONTO — A 20-year-old member of the 2008 Canadian Olympic archery team has been charged with child pornography offences, his coach said Thursday.

John David Burnes was arrested in Kingston, Ont., as part of an Ontario-wide child pornography sweep last week that resulted in 93 charges against 31 people.

He has been charged with one count of possession of child pornography and one count of making available child pornography.

Burnes, born in Toronto and now a student at Queen’s University in Kingston, competed in Beijing this summer and placed 63rd in his event.

His coach, Joan McDonald, confirmed to The Canadian Press that Burnes the archer is the young man facing child pornography charges.

McDonald said she learned of the charges from the media.

“They called me and asked me the question and I called his parents,” said McDonald, who added Burnes’s parents confirmed the charges.

She called the situation a tragedy, adding, “it’s always a tragedy when young people are in trouble.”

McDonald said she would not discuss the charges further.

“In Canada you’re innocent until you’re proven guilty.”

To her knowledge Burnes will continue with archery, McDonald added.

A court official in Kingston said Burnes’s next scheduled court appearance is May 5.

The date of birth listed for Burnes on the court file also matches the archer’s biography on the official Canadian Olympic Committee website for the Beijing Games.

Bruce Savage, the president of Burnes’s archery club, The Archers of Caledon, had no comment when asked about the charges.

Burnes attends Queen’s University and the COC biography says he plans to pursue a career in medicine. McDonald said she believes he wants to transfer from a general arts program into kinesiology.

The COC information also notes Burnes was the youngest member of the Canadian archery team.

He won an individual bronze medal and team silver medal at the 2007 Canada Winter Games and won a silver medal in a junior category at the 2006 Canadian Archery Championships.

The biography lists his hobbies as skiing, running, golfing, canoeing, graphic design, painting and photography.

Federal Government to change laws?

2009-02-12T06:34:00.000-08:00

I have just found this news item about new legislation being brought forward to listen in on the Internet. Fine with me...bring it on!

Here's the article:

The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — The federal government is preparing sweeping new legislation that would force Internet service providers to let police eavesdrop on exchanges in their systems.
The plan was confirmed to a Commons committee Wednesday by Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan, who says current wiretap and surveillance laws were “designed for the era of the rotary phone.”
Van Loan says there have been situations where police want to act quickly to stop a crime, but can’t because of the current laws.
Under the proposed legislation, police would first have to get court approval before they eavesdrop on Internet exchanges.
The plan is likely to please the RCMP and other police forces, who say current eavesdropping laws provide a digital safe haven for criminals, pedophiles, and terrorists.
However, it’s expected to face stiff resistance from civil libertarians, who warn it would effectively place Canada under constant surveillance in which police would monitor private conversations.

UPDATE on June Ave School letter!

2009-02-12T06:06:00.000-08:00

Here is the letter sent home to parents yesterday:

Dear Parents and Guardians:

Recently some parents have come in to school concerned that one of the men arrested last week in the Province-wide crackdown on child pornography lives in our school area.

We are aware of this situation and understand that he has been released on bail and ordered to obey various terms, including bans on going to schools, playgrounds or parks. All of the bail conditions imposed are being monitored by the Guelph Police.

While this is an unsettling situation, we will continue to keep the safety of our students foremost in everything we do at June Avenue school. We have a caring school community, and by working together we can keep our children protected not only while at school but in the neigbourhood as well.

Sincerely,

Andrew Creighton
Principal

The parent who gave me this said her child was very upset about this letter and the whole way home from school he was quiet and saying that his stomach hurt. When they got into their home he said to his mom "can you lock the door right away, that will make my stomach better."

At that time she had to have a "sit-down" talk with her son about this letter and I'm sure a lot more trying to help him understand the situation. All of this to a 6 year old.

Not only are the children who are directly hurt in this sick and evil act damaged but the whole community is. As I just learned, even a letter, like the one sent home yesterday, is disturbing enough for children.

As I've stressed before....we need to protect our children through awareness programs that come from us. Becoming aware of these issues through letter's sent home scaring the crap out of kids is no way for a child to become aware of these sick individuals out there.

Letter sent home warning of PEDOPHILES!

2009-02-11T13:44:00.000-08:00

I just heard of a letter being sent home today with kids from June Ave Public School. This letter is warning parents of 2 men living within the school area (apparently one across from the school)aged 29 and 50 that are pedophiles. I'm getting a copy of this letter tomorrow and will post more info as it becomes available.

A quick drive to Brockville and what do you get?

2009-02-06T07:46:00.000-08:00

A child porn guy! Or "Evil Balding Santa" as I call him!

Who's been dodging his sentencing hearings for months. When the judge sentences this guy in March, make sure you also charge him for the cost of 2 police officers who had to drive to Brockville to get him. Oh, and if there's anyway to wipe that smurk off his face from this picture below, that would be great as well.

Here's the article from the Guelph Mercury about this guy!

The Guelph Police Service has resolved Gordon Beacock's issue with finding a way to the city.
Two officers drove to Brockville Wednesday and arrested the admitted child pornography collector, a day after he failed to appear in a Guelph courtroom for sentencing.
Defence counsel Matthew Stanley, prior to asking the court to remove him from the record as Beacock's lawyer, told Justice David Carr his client could not attend court because he did not have enough money for the bus.
It was the same excuse Beacock used when he missed an earlier sentencing hearing in December.
On Wednesday, Carr issued a warrant for Beacock's arrest.
The man appeared in bail court yesterday, where he was remanded in custody and ordered to return to court March 18, when Carr is next scheduled to sit in Guelph.
Beacock pleaded guilty last May to possessing child pornography in what Guelph Police believed was one of the largest such seizures in the province.
In June 2007, police executed a warrant on Beacock's basement apartment, steps from a local elementary school.
Officers eventually recovered more than 19,500 child porn images, almost 2,000 videos and more than 600 stories. The materials depicted children from infancy to prepubescence engaged in a full range of sexual activity.

More Child Porn arrests in Guelph!!

2009-02-06T07:11:00.001-08:00

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).

Protecting your Children from Online Predators

2008-12-26T04:08:00.001-08:00

I'd like to give credit for this information from www.oprah.com. Although some of this info is from the U.S, these tips are universal.

Protect Your Children from Online Predators

Minimize the Chances of an Online Predator Victimizing a Child

Warn your children about potentially dangerous people who may try to befriend them online.
Keep the computer in a public space in your house, not your child's bedroom.
Don't allow children to use a screen name profile or to give out personal information online.
Use parental controls provided by your service provider or blocking software.
Monitor all chat room usage.
Insist children never agree to meet someone they've met online without your permission.

Types of Children Sexual Predators Target and Prey Upon

Children with lower self-esteem
Children who divulge too much personal information online
Children who frequent chat rooms
Children willing to engage in online conversations about sex

Signs Your Child Might Be at Risk Online

Your child spends large amounts of time online, especially at night.
You find pornography on your child's computer.
Your child receives phone calls from people you don't know or is making calls to numbers you don't recognize.
Your child turns the computer off or quickly changes the screen on the monitor when you come into the room.
Your child becomes withdrawn from the family. Offenders try to drive wedges between a child and their family, trying to accentuate any minor problems at home a child may have.
Your child is using an online account belonging to someone else. Sex offenders will sometimes provide potential victims with a computer account for communications with them.

If Your Child Is Approached by an Online Predator
Write down as much information as possible—including the screen name or e-mail address of the person who contacted the child, the URL of the chat room and the date and time of contact. Report the incident to the local police department or FBI.
In addition, you can contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's cyber tipline at 800-THE-LOST. This tipline collects leads from individuals reporting the sexual exploitation of children.

I'd Be Happy To Pay For His Travel Expenses!!

2008-12-19T09:59:00.000-08:00

The same guy I blogged about in July - Who plead guilty already - somehow can't afford to make it to court for his sentencing. Apparently this guy's sentencing has been postponed many times. I am sick and tired of this. The guy is guilty. He said he was guilty!! Sentence him on the same day or within a week. A year later this guy's still out there on bail (he shouldn't have even been allowed out on bail by the way..) and now he phoned his lawyer right before his sentencing date and says "I can't afford to get to Guelph". The other thing that bothers me is the judge! It was said that he was thinking about issuing an arrest warrant for this guy but he changed his mind. Don't change your mind!!! Get this guy in your court room, stop him from wasting your time, the courts time and get him in jail.

The solution is easy: I'll pay for the travel expenses to get this guy into court so we can get him behind bars.

Here is the article from today's Guelph Mercury about this guy. Unbelievable!

GUELPH MERCURY: DECEMBER 19th, 2008

A child porn collector facing certain jail time called to say he couldn't make it to his sentencing date yesterday.
Defence counsel Matthew Stanley said his client, 47-year-old Gordon Beacock, has been living out of the area while free on bail and could not afford a trip to Guelph yesterday, where he was to be sentenced for possessing more than 22,000 child pornography images, videos and stories.
Stanley said Beacock called and told him he simply could not get to court.
Justice David Carr was not impressed that the sentencing, which had already been delayed several times, was off the rails again.
Carr said the key decision was whether to issue an arrest warrant for the man, who pleaded guilty last May.
But the judge was persuaded by Stanley's request to adjourn the case one more time, to Feb. 3 when Carr is next scheduled to be sitting in Guelph court.
"I won't accept this excuse on the next date," Carr said. "He will be here on Feb. 3.
"This won't be allowed again."
Police executed a search warrant at Beacock's basement apartment a stone's throw from a local elementary school in June 2007, after a property appraiser reported to police he had seen child pornography while conducting an appraisal of the home.
A forensic examination of the computer and related devices uncovered more than 19,500 photos, almost 2,000 videos and more than 600 stories determined to be child pornography.
It was at the time one of the largest seizure of such materials in Ontario history.

22,000 Images? 1 is too many!

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Another person in Guelph arrested last year will be learning his fate come August for possession of over 22,000 images, videos and stories of child pornography. The most content ever found to date in Ontario.

Here's the article from today's Guelph Mercury.

"A child porn collector, responsible for one of the largest collections in the province, is to undergo a psychological assessment. A police investigation in June 2007 found Gordon Beacock, 46, had more than 22,000 child porn images, videos and stories on his home computer in his basement apartment on Laurine Avenue in Guelph.

Beacock was to be sentenced yesterday, but provincial court Justice David Carr had concerns about his presentence report. "He strikes me that he is blaming everyone else for the possession of this material and not taking responsibility of his own," Carr said.

Carr said those statements were concerning when he has to consider future conduct on Beacock's part.

Following a consultation with his client, defence counsel Matt Stanley said Beacock would see a psychologist. Sentencing was adjourned until Aug. 8."