During a search warrant at a home in Toronto on Dec. 22, Ontario Provincial Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Internet Child Exploitation Unit searched about 50 electronic devices, according to The Globe and Mail. Police say that they found more than 1,000 files of child pornography in various stages of upload and download.
The man was charged with two counts of sexual interference and two counts of promoting a sexual offence against a child. He was later released on $75,000 bail and will appear in court in January.
“This is probably the worst example I’ve ever seen of this,” said Captain Philip Lepore, commander of the police unit that investigates Internet exploitation, in a statement to the Toronto Star. “There’s not a lot of silver linings in it … There’s a lot of people that this victim is going to be born into.”
Ontario premier Doug Ford told the Toronto Star that he had been “very disturbed” by the allegations against the man, and also ordered an immediate review of regulations requiring internet service providers to identify children being exploited on the internet.
Read the full story at The Globe and Mail.
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