CANADA
Metro
The bedroom resembled that of a teenager: Hockey posters on the wall. A computer.
The man it belonged to was in his late 40s.
Police had a serious reason for being in the Chatham, Ont., home where Ronald Inghelbrecht lived with his mother: officers in Toronto suspected he was a customer of a website that sold child pornography, and the Ontario Provincial Police were there to look for evidence.
“I would describe his room as being adolescent — like he decorated it when he was 12, or 14, and he never changed it,” said OPP Detective David Beckon.
Police seized three computers and thousands of images and movies — and just one video was what the officers in Toronto were looking for. It, they say, tied Inghelbrecht to a website they were investigating as part of Project Spade. He was charged with possession of child pornography and accessing child pornography, and the Chatham-Kent police put out a news release on Dec. 5, 2011.
Three days later, they followed with another release — and Inghelbrecht’s legal troubles worsened. …
Popular parish priest
By all accounts, he was a popular parish priest, a church youth leader and an active Scout organizer.
So when Daniel Moreau, 56, was arrested at his living quarters at a local church last March, there was shock and dismay in the town of Sorel-Tracy, about 100 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
Moreau was charged with seven counts of child pornography, part of a nationwide sweep resulting from Project Spade.
“We understand the distress that such an event can cause within the entire community,” diocese officials said in a statement, and announced Moreau had been relieved of his duties.
Most details of the case are under a publication ban, but defence lawyer Gilles B. Thibault told the Star his client was accused of possessing “an important quantity” of child pornography.
“It is not an isolated act, not a single photo or video — it is more than that,” he said.
Thibault confirmed his client was active in the Scouts in various places around Quebec for a “number of years.”
But, he said, “to date they have not found any victim in the Scout movement.”
Moreau’s case is before the courts.
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