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	Child Porn Ring Cracked By Pat Hewitt Winnipeg Free Press December 9, 2010 http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/child-porn-ring-cracked-111584424.html TORONTO -- A clown, a former Anglican priest, a university researcher and a convicted pedophile were among 25 Canadians arrested after authorities cracked an international child porn network in a year-long investigation, police said Wednesday. They said 25 children victimized by the network were rescued, including a dozen in Canada. They said the Canadian children were from three provinces -- Ontario, British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador -- and the youngest was four years old. Toronto police Det. Paul Krawczyk said the network was trading images and video of children online and the motive wasn't financial gain. "It's just for their perverted sexual desires these images are traded," he said. "It has nothing to do with money." Twenty-six Americans and six Europeans were also arrested. Together, the 57 men face 218 charges in Project Sanctuary. The Canadians, who are aged 20 to 68 and come from all walks of life, face 131 charges, police said. The victims included both boys and girls, said Krawczyk. Four of those rescued were from Ottawa, he added. "It's terrible what these children go through," the detective said. Police released the names of some of those charged, including former priest Robin Barrett, clown Randy Miller, York University research associate Richard Dyde, security expert Daniel Clayton and convicted sex offender David Caza. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of child pornography images -- some of babies -- were seized during the probe, police said. The case stretched across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe. The probe involved 13 Canadian police agencies -- including the RCMP, the Ontario and Quebec provincial police forces, U.S. Homeland Security and authorities in Britain and Germany. None of the children rescued had been abducted or had been runaways. "We have to work as tirelessly as we can to track down the people who think it's OK to trade and talk about these images, let alone the people who actually produce them," said Krawczyk. Eighteen of the 25 Canadians, who were charged between November 2009 and this month, have been publicly identified by police. Others are related to victims and won't be publicly named, police said. Three men, including the man who sparked the investigation, have already been convicted. Ten of those arrested and publicly identified by police are from Ontario, including seven from Toronto. Others are from the Ontario communities of Barrie, Bowmanville, Newmarket and Richmond Hill, while two each are from Vancouver and Regina. Other suspects are from Kamloops, B.C., Calgary, Sylvan Lake, Alta., and Quebec. The probe began in Conception Bay South, N.L., in November 2009 when authorities found Barrett, the ex-priest, trading child abuse images online.
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