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ring extends to Canada RCMP hunting for the users of 19 Net addresses News Services Published: Thursday, February 08, 2007 VIENNA -- Austrian authorities have uncovered a major child-pornography ring involving at least 2,360 suspects from 77 countries who viewed videos of young children being sexually abused. They say users of up to 103 computers in Canada are among those implicated. Cracking the case is "a strike against child pornography unprecedented in Austrian criminal history," federal police said yesterday. Describing the videos, Chief Insp. Harald Gremel said: "Girls could be seen being raped, and you could also hear screams." 
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| Richmond RCMP
investigate allegations of Child Pornography Richmond: Richmond RCMP are currently involved in a criminal investigation involving a Richmond RCMP officer and allegations of involvement in Child Pornography. As a result of an internal investigation over the past several weeks a Richmond RCMP officer was arrested on January 27, 2007 and suspended with pay pending a further criminal investigation which also involve allegations of unsafe storage of a firearm and other possible criminal allegations. Richmond RCMP are taking these allegations extremely seriously and if supported by the appropriate evidence charges will be forwarded for approval. Every day officers from the Richmond RCMP and from across Canada continue to do outstanding work in the performance of their duty. Peter Thiessen, Cpl. Richmond RCMP 6900 Minoru BLVD Richmond, BC V6Y1Y Phone: 604-207-4779 Fax: 604-207-4716 Email: peter.thiessen@rcmp-grc.gc.ca |
| 69 sex charges
filed The Associated Press Published: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 CLAYTON, Mo. -- Michael Devlin, 41, accused of kidnapping two boys and holding one for more than four years, was charged yesterday with molesting them nearly 70 times. The pizzeria manager was charged with 69 counts, 17 of which relate to Ben Ownby, 13, who disappeared Jan. 8. The remaining counts relate to Shawn Hornbeck, now 15, who was abducted in 2002. © The Vancouver Province 2007 |
| Child-luring
bill receives unanimous OK News Services Published: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 Abbotsford MP Ed Fast's private member's bill on child luring received unanimous consent from the House of Commons justice committee yesterday in Ottawa. Fast, who first introduced Bill C-277 in May, is aiming to increase penalties for predators convicted of luring a child on the Internet for sexual purposes. If it becomes law, it will increase the maximum prison sentence for child-luring predators from five to 10 years. The committee also amended the legislation to increase the sentence from six to 18 months in prison. © The Vancouver Province 2007 |
| Pedophile's offences
revealed John Colebourn, The Province Published: Sunday, February 04, 2007 A pedophile with a long history of breaking his parole conditions also stole the keys to a residential facility in order to make duplicates. The behaviour of Shaun Joshua Deacon, 41, in that incident and others is reviewed in a National Parole Board "post-release decision sheet" dated Jan. 25, 2007, and obtained by The Province. In it, parole-board members vote to continue requiring Deacon to live in a community residential facility for a further 90 days.
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| Judge mulls video
death confession The Canadian Press Published: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 EDMONTON -- One of two men accused in the sex slaying of a 13-year-old Edmonton girl told police in a videotaped confession that he was not the ringleader in the April 2005 beating. A judge is determining the admissibility of the videotaped evidence at the trial of Michael Briscoe, 35, of Edmonton and Joseph Laboucan, 21, of Fort St. John, B.C. In a videotaped confession to the death of Nina Courtepatte shown at a voir dire hearing in court, Briscoe tried to shift blame away from himself and on to Laboucan. © The Vancouver Province 2007 |
| KELOWNA: Sex
assaults net jail The Province; News Services January 07, 2007 KELOWNA -- A man who sexually assaulted two young females and blamed his alcohol consumption failed to sway the judge, who sentenced him to a year in jail. Allen Dyer, 55, pleaded guilty to fondling a 17-year-old girl last March and a 10-year-old girl in September. Dyer approached the 17-year-old as she sat working at a computer on March 18 and fondled her breast. When she told him to stop, he said they were normal, natural actions, court was told. Dyer was not intoxicated at the time, court also heard. While out on bail for that incident, Dyer stopped reporting to a probation officer due to his heavy drinking. A week after the court issued an arrest warrant, he assaulted the 10-year-old outside a home, fondling her chest and touching her shorts. Dyer has been in protective custody since November. He was given double-time credit for the time he has served to date and had another seven-and-a-half months tacked on to that time. |
| Canadian child
rescued after Internet appeal Fri Jan 5, 7:53 PM MONTREAL (AFP) - A Canadian child who was the victim of sexual abuse has been placed under protection after appealing for help over the Internet, Canadian police said. The child used the Google search engine to send a message to a site for children in Australia, pleading for help, and the e-mail was forwarded to local police, spokeswoman Julie Gagnon of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told AFP. The child typed in "kids help," found an Australian site that offers online assistance to children, and "sent a message saying 'this is what is happening to me, please help me so it doesn't happen any more,'" according to another spokeswoman, Corporal Lana Prosper.
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Super Creep:
He hunts for innocents
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Girl sexually
assaulted live online © The Vancouver Province 2006 |
| Sexual assault
investigated Ladysmith, BC www.ladysmithchronicle.com Dec 26 2006 The assailant of a 12-year-old Ladysmith girl left behind fingerprints, but police have not yet made a match. Ladysmith RCMP Corporal Ron MacLellan said the detachment has pulled on other resources, including Vancouver Island Major Crimes, and is still tracking information on the attack, which happened two weeks ago. He said DNA results are being prepared and noted lab work always takes time. However, MacLellan is confident police have conclusive evidence and tips to lead them to the culprit. “We have such a very good description from our victim and of course we are not going to stop until we have him in custody,” he said. The young girl was home alone when the male entered the house through an unlocked door. The suspect is described as weighing approximately 180 pounds, balding with gray hair, having a short gray beard, bad teeth, and wearing a ball cap at the time of the assault. |
Rapist's case
faces review
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| Court: Child
Porn - www.langleyadvance.com An Aldergrove man facing child pornography charges will appear in Surrey court on Dec. 20th. Alexander William Schiller has been free on $5,000 bail since shortly after his arrest on Nov. 1. Schiller was the target of a three-month investigation by police. The investigation began in Toronto where officers had traced child porn back to an Internet subscriber in Langley. The RCMP's Integrated Child Exploitation Unit then began the local investigation. published on 12/08/2006 |
We must end
parole possibilities for Hay and lifers like him It is a fundamental pillar of our system of criminal justice that no convicted person, however terrible their crime, should be beyond redemption. But a person who commits a crime of the utmost depravity, and years later still seems incapable of grasping the enormity of it, deserves no sympathy. Such a man is Donald Alexander Hay, sentenced in 1977 to life in prison for the kidnapping and rape of 12-year-old Abby Drover.
No parole for Abby Drover's abductor
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| University of
Lethbridge Researcher Jailed For Child Porn Offences Overseas Nov, 28 2006 - 2:20 PM CALGARY/AM770CHQR - A British researcher with the University of Lethbridge has been sentenced to 15 months in an English jail after he was caught taking indecent photos of children at one of London's most popular landmarks. Robin Phillips pleaded guilty last month to four charges including taking indecent images of children and possessing indecent images of children. Phillips is a British astrophysicist who worked as manager of a research project in Lethbridge. The University suspended him when the charges came to light. He was arrested in Trafalgar Square after police caught him taking pictures up the skirts of young girls. Police seized his laptop computer, on which they found close to 500,000 indecent images of children, the largest number of child-porn photos ever seized in Britain. |
| Local held on
kid-porn charges, released on bail www.aldergrovestar.com By MONIQUE TAMMINGA, Black Press Nov 16 2006 A 25-year-old Aldergrove man charged with possessing child pornography was released from custody on $5,000 bail on Wednesday. Accused Alexander William Schiller was arrested the previous week at his home. Langley RCMP were tipped off by Ontario police about a local man being involved with child pornography on the Internet.
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NV
sex offender convicted again A 54-year-old North Vancouver man previously convicted of having sex with a 13 year-old girl was handed an additional six-month conditional sentence Oct. 27 after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography in 2005. Judge Carol Baird Ellan sentenced John Tait of Deep Cove to serve his time in the community rather than going to jail, saying he doesn't present a current danger to the public.
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Police:
Child porn case began in Toronto An Aldergrove man faces child pornography charges, following a three-month long joint investigation with Toronto police. A young Aldergrove man was in court Thursday, charged with making or publishing child porn. Langley Mounties received a tip from Toronto police back in August that child porn had been traced back to a Internet subscriber in Aldergrove.
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Man charged
after he's busted abusing child online
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Conditional
sentence for sexual assault - North Shore News A North Shore man who molested the 16-year-old daughter of a female friend was handed a six-month conditional sentence Oct. 20 and ordered to take counselling after pleading guilty to sexual assault. Mark Van Mulligen, 37, was handed the sentence by Judge Judith Gedye in North Vancouver provincial court. In handing down her sentence, Gedye told Van Mulligen he had abused a position of trust with the teen.
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U.S. sex offender
released after hearing Niagara Falls, Ont. — An American sex offender was released from custody on Friday and ordered to live at his family's home in St. Catharines, Ont., after an immigration official said the man posed little threat to society. “I'm satisfied that as a danger, you're at the low end,” said Ken Thomson, the immigration review board member who gave the ruling in Niagara Falls, Ont. “When I look at the evidence...it's clear that he comes out at the low end of the scale.”
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Man who crossed
border to have sex with teen in Vancouver gets 10 years in jail
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Child porn
rampant on Web - Richmond News There are 14 million child pornography websites operating on the Internet. Every week, 20,000 new pictures of children being sexually exploited are posted. Every day, 116,000 queries for child pornography are posted. One in 12 children have gone to meet in person someone they met online. These are some of the terrifying statistics participants heard at the sixth annual “Policing Cyberspace International Summit” held at the River Rock Casino Resort yesterday. The summit was organized by the Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB).
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Mom wants
to join forces with Pool
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| Child
abuse policy under fire
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Dad locked up son, 9
The Associated Press Published: Friday, October 13, 2006 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Randall Piercy, 41, has been charged with torturing his nine-year-old son by keeping him locked in a bedroom for much of the past three years, a surveillance camera tracking his every move. The home was like a prison that had cameras in almost every room, with the father monitoring the boy on television and computer screens, Sheriff's Lt. Annie Smith said. |
Why was Jamie Charlie left with his sister's killer?
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| Boy left in van prompts day care rule change - the
North Shore News A North Vancouver day-care centre has changed its procedures after a staff member accidentally left an eight-year-old boy unattended in the back of a van for half an hour. The incident took place Sept. 25 after a driver for Top Drawer Daycare picked up the boy and a number of other kids from the day care's main location to drop them off at school.
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Another tragedy may be waiting to happen
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| Filipino sailor
arrested, charged with possessing child pornography David Carrigg, The Province Published: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 A Filipino sailor has been charged with possession of child pornography following his arrest in Prince Rupert. Const. Steve Richards of Prince Rupert RCMP said Canadian Border Services Agency officers boarded a freighter anchored in Prince Rupert on the weekend. "During that search, officers located child pornography that was in the possession of a crew member," Richards said yesterday. The crew member remains in custody pending a court appearance.
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