nearly 400 children are rescued

Three-year Project Spade operation spearheaded by Canadian authorities netted 348 suspects around the world
Police arrested 108 Canadians, 76 Americans and 164 residents of other countries in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia
List of suspects includes nine clergymen, six police officers, 40 teachers and three foster parents
Youth baseball coach in Washington state allegedly made more than 500 films
Brian Way, 42, owner of Azov Films, accused of distributing videos of naked boys from 5 to 12 years of age
More than 350,000 images and over 9,000 videos of graphic child sexual abuse were seized

A sweeping child pornography investigation has led to the rescue of 386 young children around the world and the arrest of 348 people, among them nearly 80 American nationals.

Canadian police described the Project Spade operation as one of the largest child porn busts they've ever seen.

‘It is alleged that officers seized hundreds of thousands of videos detailing horrific sexual acts against very young children, some of the worst that they have ever viewed,’ Toronto Inspector Joanna Beaven-Desjardins said.

Police said 108 people were arrested in Canada, 76 in the U.S and 164 in countries from Spain to South Africa and Australia. Forty school teachers, nine doctors and nurses, and more than 30 people who volunteered with kids were among those taken into custody.

The list of suspects also includes nine clergymen, six police officers and three foster parents.

Police said the children were ‘rescued from child exploitation’ but did not give more details.

Beaven-Desjardins said the investigation began with a Toronto man accused of running a company since 2005 that distributed child pornography videos to the tune of $4million in revenue, CTV News reported.

Police allege Brian Way, 42, instructed people around the world to create the videos of children ranging from 5 to 12 years of age, then distributed the videos via his company, Azov Films, to international customers.

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	Child porn bust: Anatomy of an international child pornography investigation
	The customers logged in from around the world: Germany. Spain. Mexico. Australia. Hundreds from Canada and the United States. They came from all walks of life; they worked as schoolteachers and newspaper editors, as police officers and doctors. What they had in common, police allege, was that they paid a Toronto man to provide them with explicit “naturist” videos of children — and, as a result, they are now caught up in what is believed to be the smashing of the largest, most extensive commercial child pornography ring ever uncovered in Canada. Among law enforcement, the investigation is known as Project Spade. For nearly a year, a team of Star reporters was granted exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the child exploitation unit of the Toronto Police Service as they brought their three-year investigation to a conclusion on Thursday. At the centre of the ring, police allege, is Brian Way: A 42-year-old with a thin goatee and carefully groomed hair, he faces 24 charges of making, possessing, distributing, exporting and selling the explicit images of boys — who range in age from toddlers to teens — in videos that investigators say were edited, packaged and sold from his west-end Toronto warehouse. They have also laid a charge of instructing a criminal organization, the first time this has been done in relation to a child pornography investigation. It is a charge more usually associated with gangs or organized crime. “This case has really challenged people to reconsider what nudism and child modelling are,” said Toronto police Detective-Constable Lisa Belanger, who led the investigation. “It’s caused countries around the world to look at this material and ask whether it’s OK for doctors, teachers, daycare providers and hockey coaches to be buying this kind of material. Countries from South Africa to Australia, Isle of Man to Hong Kong and Spain have all said it’s not OK. I think it’s going to have ripple effects everywhere.” The charges against Way, who is in custody, have not yet been proven in court. His lawyer, Nyron Dwyer, declined repeated requests for comment on behalf of his client. Among Way’s alleged Canadian clients are a Chatham volunteer hockey coach, a teacher in Toronto, a priest and a Boy Scout leader in Quebec, and a retired high-school principal in Nova Scotia. In the U.S., those arrested include police officers, a high-profile pediatrician, school teachers, principals and coaches and a Boy Scout leader.
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Global porn ring busted, 350 paedophiles held

Nearly 350 people including school teachers, doctors and actors have been arrested in what Toronto police called one of the largest child porn busts they have ever seen.

Police yesterday said that 386 children were rescued as a result of the sweeping investigation. More than 100 people were arrested in Canada and 76 in the US in an investigation dubbed Project Spade. Others were arrested in other countries.

"It is alleged that officers seized hundreds of thousands of videos detailing horrific sexual acts against very young children, some of the worst that they have ever viewed," Inspector Joanna Beaven-Desjardins said.

Australian Federal Police commander Glen McEwen today confirmed that 65 men had been arrested in Australia as a result of the Canadian investigation, and six Australian children had been removed from harm.

Police said the children were "rescued from child exploitation" but did not give more details.

Beaven-Desjardins said the investigation began with a Toronto man accused of running a company since 2005 that distributed child pornography videos.

Police allege Brian Way, 42, instructed people around the world to create the videos of children ranging from 5 to 12 years of age, then distributed the videos via his company, Azov Films, to international customers.

The videos included naked boys from Germany, Romania and Ukraine, which it marketed as naturist movies and claimed were legal in Canada and the United States.

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Child porn statistics

In 2006 U.S. attorneys handled 82.8 percent more child pornography cases than they had in 1994.

State and local law enforcement agencies involved in Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces reported a 230 percent increase in the number of documented complaints of online enticement of children from 2004 to 2008.

The task forces noted a more than 1,000 percent increase in complaints of child prostitution from 2004 to 2008.

As of June 2013, the CyberTipline has received more than 1.9 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation since it was launched in 1998. Suspected child sexual exploitation can be reported to the CyberTipline at www.cybertipline.com or 1-800-843-5678.

As of June 2013, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Child Victim Identification Program has reviewed and analyzed more than 90 million child pornography images since it was created in 2002.

Source: The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
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	Enable fight against child porn People often recall when they learned Santa Claus wasn’t real. In Iowa, this innocence-lost moment apparently happens when children learn Betty Crocker isn’t real — or so I was told at the 10th annual Preventing Child Abuse Conference last week in Des Moines. The other loss of innocence few want to discuss happens when a child is trafficked. America now produces half of the world’s child porn. The volume, with a new demand for livestreaming, requires a constant and voluminous supply of children. Most parents remain blissfully ignorant until their own child has been targeted.Child trafficking is America’s fastest growing crime, expanding 150 percent per year. A criminal can earn $1,000 per night, tax free, molesting a child in front of a live webcam. Child porn films are major money makers. The child porn industry is estimated to yield profits as high as $20 billion per year and is rapidly overtaking drugs as the preferred moneymaker by organized crime syndicates. Children are being trafficked in staggering numbers for use in America’s child porn industry.Tony Nassif, a charismatic Lebanese-American from Iowa, held the conference in Des Moines because this year marked the 30th anniversary of the abduction of a 12-year-old boy named Johnny Gosch who was ripped off the street while delivering papers for the Des Moines Register.