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The Whig Standardhttp://www.thewhig.com/PrintArticle.aspx?e=14218751 of 1 2/6/2009 7:22 AM« BackKingston man faces porn chargesPosted 18 hours agoA 20-year-old Kingston man is among 31 people facing 93 sex charges in a provincewide crackdown on onlinechild pornography.John David Burnes was arrested yesterday in Kingston as provincial police officers and investigators from 18municipal police departments staged raids across Ontario, armed with 33 search warrants.Burnes is charged with possession of child pornography and one count of making child pornography available.Police say two child victims were identified in the investigation. Some of the accused face charges of sexualassault and sexual exploitation.The investigation is continuing and more arrests are expected.Copyright © 2009 The Whig Standard
Print Pagehttp://www.collingwoodconnection.com/BarrieAdvance/printArticle?ass...1 of 1 2/6/2009 7:22 AMWasaga Beach man charged in child porn raidsFebruary 05, 2009A Wasaga Beach man was among those charged in what police say is the largest province-wide child pornographyinvestigation in Ontario's history.Mark Caron, 38, is charged with two counts of possession of child pornography and one count of making childpornography available.He was scheduled to appear today in provincial court in Barrie.OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino announced at a press conference in Toronto earlier today a total of 93 charges hadbeen laid against 31 people after police executed 33 search warrants in raids across the province yesterday.Charges include sexual assault, sexual interference, making child pornography, making child pornography available,distributing child pornography and possession of child pornography.Two victims, a four-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, were identified during the investigation.The raids were executed by police services in 18 municipalities, including Barrie, as part of the Provincial Strategy toProtect Children from Sexual Assault and Exploitation on the Internet.Since the strategy was implemented in August 2006 at the request of the provincial government, police have laid1,983 charges against 634 people as a result of 4,782 investigations.The Child Sexual Exploitation Section of the OPP investigated another 996 cases, resulting in 392 charges being laidagainst 144 people.“The most fundamental responsibility of our society is to protect our children,” said Fantino at the press conference.“The Ontario police services associated with the provincial strategy will stop at nothing to hunt down child predatorsand eliminate the threat they pose to our children and our communities.”Some of the people charged in yesterday’s raids are young offenders and others have had their names withheld toprotect the identity of their victims.Those charged are all men and many are relatives or neighbours of victims, said police.Police say collections of child pornography in circulation on the Internet include hundreds of thousands of images andhundreds of child rape videos.The victims are increasingly younger and the images are more violent as the appetite for live video of child sexualabuse on the Internet grows, say police.Often mistaken as victimless, most child pornography offences in Ontario involve the actual sexual exploitation, rapeand sexual torture of children, including infants, on-camera, said police.More charges are pending.The investigation continues.–with files from TorStar News.
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