The Ontario Provincial Police have seized about 30,000 computer files containing photos and video clips of child pornography, in the largest bust of its kind in Canada. The lead put them in the middle of a U.S. Customs and FBI investigation to track sources of pornographic images on the internet. The American operation centered in California around a pedophile ring known as the Orchid Club. In his home, police found thousands of computer files containing colour still photos and moving images depicting very young, pre-pubescent children having sex with other children and adults. Police said some of the children were drugged and shown in sexual acts involving bondage and bestiality.
Police have the identity of one child who is believed to be from the United States.
Davis, a part-time video store clerk, contacted other pedophiles and traded video and pictures on the internet. He is charged with making, distributing, possessing and importing child porn. Detective Sergeant Matthews who has been with the porn crime unit for eight years, acknowledged the difficulties of trying to monitor the internet -a medium that has 35 to 50 million users. The medium is difficult. It is like trying to monitor two people talking in two different countries on the telephone.