Hundreds Arrested in International Child Porn Case
Police say a sweeping child pornography investigation that began with a Toronto man has led to at least 386 victims being rescued.
Toronto police say 348 people have been arrested around the world as part of Project Spade, which they described as one of the largest child porn busts they’ve ever achieved.
Hundreds of thousand of the images, filling 45 terabytes or a stack of paper reaching as tall as 1,500 CN Towers, found featured “horrific acts of sexual abuse — some of the worst (officers) have seen,” said Inspector Joanna Beaven-Desjardins, who heads the Toronto police’s sex crimes unit.
They say 50 of those arrested are from Ontario and 58 are from other parts of Canada.
Police say school teachers, doctors and actors were among those arrested.