Police Says Ontario’s Child Porn Investigation Led to 41 Arrests in 17 Countries

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In a press conference on Wednesday, York Regional Police revealed that a year-long international effort to bust child pornographers has finally culminated in more than a dozen of arrests around the world. The operation was conducted in cooperation with the RCMP, Interpol, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and FBI. According to the press release, 41 arrests were made in 17 different countries with over 100 criminal charges including 19 victims of child pornography.

The press release explained that the operation ‘Project Hydra’ was launched by the police force’s Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) in April 2014.  It was launched in response to a tip about child pornography being uploaded from an address in York Region, where police “learned that it was a young person who had uploaded the images.” It was added that “the investigation led to an online social networking application that the young person had visited where unknown people around the world were exchanging child pornography.” Although York Regional Police refused to name the social networking application, it listed several email and social media accounts including one for Vichatter, a live video chat service popular in Russia.

Consequently, law enforcement agencies all over the world have started their own investigations, including an RCMP probe in New Brunswick related to a 24-year-old male suspect from Moncton with possibly more than 2,000 victims around the world. According to the RCMP, the suspect personified to be a teenage girl on the internet and convinced boys to perform lewd acts on camera, which he then recorded and redistributed.

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