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Edmonton man charged with 15 online child exploitation offences
The ALERT logo is seen in a meeting room in Calgary. (CTV News) An Edmonton man has been charged with 15 offences related to online child exploitation after an international investigation. The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team's (ALERT) internet child exploitation unit charged Cordell Campbell on July 15 with several offences, including three counts of luring a child, three counts of making sexually explicit material available to a child and making child pornography, among others, according to an ALERT media release on Monday. His arrest and the charges against the 32-year-old came after the RCMP's National Child Exploitation Crime Centre, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation investigated him for allegedly luring children online and sharing sexually exploitative material involving children. Incidents include cases in the United Kingdom in May 2023 involving a 13-year-old girl and in Kansas City, Mo., in June last year involving an 11-year-old girl. The ALERT unit started to investigate Campbell in December and concluded that they believe Campbell has been sexually exploiting children online since 2023. Campbell has been released from police custody. His next court date is slated for Aug. 20. Police ask anyone with information on the investigation into Campbell or on any child exploitation activity to call their local detachment or Crime Stoppers. ALERT is an umbrella police agency created by the provincial government in 2006 that uses 400 municipal and RCMP officers in several dedicated teams to investigate serious and organized crime.
CTV News
01-08-2025
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Toronto police charge 2 men with trafficking 15-year-old girl
Two men have been charged in connection with the sex trafficking of a 15-year-old girl. The investigation began in June, and Toronto police officers have since determined that the two suspects allegedly trafficked the victim through deception, coercion and control. Police allege the suspects created and administered the victim's online ads for sexual services, during which sexualized pictures were taken. The girl was transported to different hotels to meet clients and was forced to surrender the money she earned over to the two suspects, police allege. Officers located the suspects in Toronto and Mississauga on Thursday and arrested them. They have been identified as 47-year-old Marshall Nathaniel O'Connor and 39-year-old Eric Carreiro. O'Connor is facing 19 charges, including trafficking in persons under eighteen years by exercising control, trafficking in persons under eighteen years by recruiting, financial benefit/trafficking person under 18, advertising another person's sexual services, making child pornography and sexual assault. Carreiro is facing 11 similar charges. Police have released the photos of the two suspects, as they believe there may be more victims. They are asking anyone with information to contact investigators at 416-808-4838 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).
CBC
31-07-2025
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Trial dates for historical N.S. human trafficking case a long way off
Social Sharing An Alberta man, who's facing historical human trafficking charges in Nova Scotia, must wait nearly a year and a half before his case goes to trial. The lawyer for Darren Robert William Fisher, 37, appeared by telephone in Nova Scotia Supreme Court Thursday morning to set trial dates. The earliest dates for which lawyer Jim O'Neil is available begin at the end of January 2027 and run for 25 days. Fisher is facing 13 charges, including living off the avails of prostitution, sexual assault, making child pornography, uttering threats and a number of drug charges. Police said the alleged offences occurred between 2007 and 2010. Fisher was initially facing 11 charges, but last year police added two drug offences to the list. Because of the drug offences, both federal and provincial prosecutors are handling the case against Fisher, who remains free on conditions in the meantime.
CTV News
16-07-2025
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Calgary man charged for filming young girls and women at Southcentre Mall without their consent
In 2017, Jeffrey Williamson of Calgary received a two year sentence for voyeurism and possession of child pornography. He faces new charges announced Wednesday in relation to complaints that he filmed young girls and women at Southcentre Mall in June without their consent. (LinkedIn) A Calgary man has been charged who police believe filmed young girls and women without their consent. On Tuesday, June 24 at around 5 p.m., police were called to Southcentre Mall, at 100 Anderson Road SE, for reports of a man who they say was seen using a cellphone to film young girls or women without their consent. After talking to one complainant who said she saw the man filming her, and reviewing CCTV security footage, police identified the man but weren't able to find him. On July 1, a search warrant was executed in the 300 block of Marquis Lane S.E., where police seized various electronic devices containing child pornography. The suspect was arrested without incident. Jeffrey Robert Williamson, 51, was charged with one count of voyeurism, possession of child pornography and accessing child pornography. He's scheduled to appear in court on Thursday. Williamson previously served two years in prison on voyeurism and child pornography charges in 2018. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 403-266-1234. Those wishing to remain anonymous can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477, online or by downloading the P3 Tips app.
CTV News
10-07-2025
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Ottawa man arrested in Barrie on child exploitation charges
A 34-year-old man from Ottawa is headed back to the nation's capital after being arrested in Barrie in connection with an internet child exploitation investigation. On Thursday, members of the Barrie Police Service Internet Child Exploitation Unit worked with the Ottawa Police Service Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Unit to execute a search warrant at a Barrie residence. Several computer devices were seized as a result of the investigation for forensic analysis. The accused faces several criminal offences, including sexual assault, making child pornography, and making sexually explicit material available to a child. He will await a bail hearing in Ottawa.
