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06 Mar 2025 Canada 🇨🇦
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Project STEEL leads to the arrest of 106 online child sex offenders, 37 children safeguardedProject STEEL was an extensive nationwide and coordinated joint operation led by the OPP, SQ, and RCMP’s NCECC. It brought together 63 law enforcement partners across Canada. It successfully targeted online child sexual exploitation. The operation took place from February 17 to 28, 2025.
This coordinated national operation targeted online child sexual exploitation offenders while focusing on safeguarding children, police said. Investigations into 306 individuals were concluded, and 192 search warrants executed. Though 395 investigations are still ongoing, an NCECC inspector confirmed 106 individuals have already been arrested, with over 308 charges laid.
In addition, the work of all 63 involved law enforcement partners ensured 40 victims were identified, and that 37 children were safeguarded, police said. It is anticipated that those numbers will grow. Investigations are still ongoing.
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https://rcmp.ca/en/news/2025/03/project-steel-leads-arrest-106-online-child-sex-offenders»
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https://torontosun.com/news/national/more-than-100-arrested-in-countrywide-child-exploitation-operation-police-say»
https://www.brandonsun.com/local/2025/03/06/local-men-charged-in-child-exploitation-sweep▫️
Nova Scotia Human Trafficking Unit charges man with multiple human trafficking-related offencesThe Nova Scotia Human Trafficking Unit (HTU) has charged a man with offences related to human trafficking, including Procuring Person Under 18, Advertising Sexual Services, and Trafficking in Persons.
In July 2023, the HTU received a report from a victim of human trafficking who was a youth at the time the offences began. Over the course of the investigation, the officers became aware of a second victim. Offences took place between 2017 and 2023, while the victims and the accused were in Nova Scotia.
On February 22, 2025, officers from HTU travelled to British Columbia and arrested Simon McNamee, 31, as he was living in Vancouver at the time. He was transported back to Nova Scotia, where he was charged with a total of seventeen offences, including Receiving Material Benefit from Sexual Services, Procuring - Person Under 18, Advertising Sexual Services, and Trafficking in Persons.
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https://halifax.citynews.ca/2025/03/04/man-arrested-in-b-c-and-brought-back-to-n-s-to-face-slew-of-human-trafficking-offences/»
https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2025/nova-scotia-human-trafficking-unit-charges-man-multiple-human-trafficking-related-offences▫️
Dangerous offender who sexually abused boys in Niagara region granted unescorted leave from prisonA dangerous offender who "preyed" on and sexually assaulted at least 11 boys in Ontario's Niagara region and was imprisoned indefinitely beginning in 2006 has been allowed to live in the community, unescorted, for weeks at a time, says the Parole Board of Canada (PBC).
Cory Newton, 54, deliberately lured, abused and victimized boys between ages eight and 14 who were from "troubled" backgrounds or dysfunctional families in St. Catharines and Welland.
He was convicted of crimes that took place between 1996 and 2002, and later admitted in prison to sexually abusing 20 to 30 children beginning in the 1980s, according to a PBC decision.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/cory-newton-absences-1.7473538 @ENDHUMANTRAFFICKING