Politics
Monday December 3, 2001
See today's LifeSiteNews stories
CANADA AGAIN FAILS TO MAKE ARRESTS IN INTERNATIONAL CHILD PORN RING BUST
OTTAWA, December 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) - As police forces in 19 countries around the globe arrested 130 people connected to an international child pornography ring, Canadian authorities failed to arrest any of the Canadian suspects. The National Post reported last week that the 10-month investigation led by Britain's National Crime Squad, was the largest ever bust of Internet pornography.
Although the RCMP cooperated with the investigation entitled Operation Landmark, the Canadian police said the information sent by Interpol, which had led to the arrests in all the other countries, was insufficient to issue arrest warrants in Canada.
Mark Hecht, senior legal council for Beyond Borders, a child advocacy group, told the Post that the events mirror a similar international child porn crackdown two years ago. Then the 16 Canadian members of a notorious group known as the Wonderland Club went free after Canada backed out of the bust at the last minute.
In November 2000, an international report on child sexual abuse singled out Canada as a haven for sexual predators of children. The report released by the committee to End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking (ECPAT) slammed Canada for having one of the youngest ages of consent for sex at 14 whereas most countries are raising the age from 16 to 18. At the time, Debbie Mahaffy, whose daughter Leslie was tortured and murdered by sex killer Paul Bernardo, described the country's lack of coordinated action as "mind-boggling". "We don't seem to have a problem getting people's attention when it comes to protecting them from violence," said Ms. Mahaffy, who works for the Ontario government's Officer for Victims of Crime. "So why can't we enact the most basic mechanisms to protect our children from sexual exploitation? It's simply inadequate."
See the National Post coverage:
http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20011...
Back to TopSHARE THIS STORY: E-mail Print Newsvine Digg Reddit Del.icio.us Facebook
Latest Headlines
- Terri-Schiavo-Like Disabled Woman Allowed to Live after Parents Reconcile
- California Supreme Court to Hear Anti-Prop. 8 Cases
- Arnold Schwarzenegger's Wife: I'm "a Catholic in Good Standing" But Also Pro-abortion and Pro-Homosexual
- London Couple Refused for Adoption over Spanking...Again
- Court Orders Approval of Ariz. ‘Choose Life’ License Plates
- German Court Orders Children to Be Returned to Homeschooling Family against State Advice
- French Academy Elects Author of Legal Abortion as Newest Member
- University of Calgary Once Again Attempting to Censor Campus Pro-Life Club
- English Catholic Bishops have Failed to Admit “Sickness” of Dissent in the Church: Lancaster Bishop
- The Coming "War" Between the Obama Administration and the Catholic Church
- Speech Police Hired to Roam Queens University Campus
- Adult Stem Cells used to Create “Living Bandage” for Knee Injuries
- Donate to LifeSiteNews.com Simply by Surfing the Internet!
Most Read this Week
- Serbian Abortionist Who Aborted 48,000 Babies Becomes Pro-Life Activist
- Italian Nuns Refuse to Kill Eluana
- Alleged Chemical Attack on Pro-lifers at Abortion Clinic Sickens Two
- Charleston Priest Tells Obama-Supporting Catholics to Confess before Receiving Communion Again
- Parliamentary Group Pushing “Nazi Eugenics Principles”: Australian Senator
- Christian Prayer Group Sexually and Physically Assaulted by Homosexual Mob
- UK Catholic Bishop: “I have been thrilled by Barack Obama’s victory and I thank God for it.”
- What Homeschoolers Can Expect Under an Obama Administration
- Lawsuits Proliferate Demanding Proof of Obama's Natural-Born Citizenship before Electoral Vote Count
- Mormons, Knights of Columbus Face Chilling Threats and More Vandalism for Prop. 8 Support
MORE NEWS: 
LifeSiteNews.com Home Page Last 10 Days Archives Special Reports
Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article or portions of it without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to "LifeSiteNews.com". Any website publishing of complete or large portions of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com. The link is not required for excerpts. Republishing of articles on LifeSiteNews.com from other sources as noted is subject to the conditions of those sources.