AUSTRALIA
Perth Now
Ben McClellan
From: The Daily Telegraph
November 15, 2013
TWO teachers and two priests from NSW are being prosecuted as part of a global operation targeting users of a Canadian child pornography website that has resulted in more than 340 people being charged – a fifth of them in Australia.
As Toronto police exposed the largest child exploitation ring in Canada, Australian Federal Police revealed 65 Australians were being prosecuted based on information from their Canadian counterparts for allegedly using the website.
International authorities have rescued 386 children, including five in Western Australia and one in the ACT, from harm and police said they could discover more Australian victims and expect to make more arrests.
More than half of the Australians charged are from Queensland (33) while nine people are before NSW courts – four are being prosecuted by the NSW Sex Crimes Squad’s child exploitation internet unit for possession of child pornography and using the internet to access child pornography, while the AFP is prosecuting the other five.
Retired Catholic priest Edward Sedevic, 72, of Lake Haven on the Central Coast, is one of the four men NSW Police have charged.
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