TORONTO (CANADA)
CP Channel 24
July 4, 2019
By Chris Herhalt
A Toronto man is facing 22 charges after he allegedly lured at least three small children at two Filipino churches over the past year, recording his sexual assaults on them and sharing them online.
Det. Const. Don Bai says that sometime before March 2019, Facebook contacted American law enforcement officials with information suggesting someone was trading and sharing videos and images of the sexual abuse of children using their service.
The Americans then contacted the RCMP, who then notified Toronto police.
Bai said police raided the home of a man in the Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue West area on June 12, and seized a number of devices.
The devices allegedly contained videos of a man sexually abusing victims who Bai said were “pre-pubescent.”
Three have been identified so far.
Bai said the children were lured at two churches in 2018, Word and Life Christian Assembly on Coldstream Avenue and Jesus Reigns Forever International Ministry on Finch Avenue West.
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