Sunday, June 1, 2014

Betrayal: What do you do when you discover your friend is a pedophile?

Internet Child Exploitation unit provincial co-ordinator Staff Sgt. Ron Weir, left,
and RCMP Cpl. Drew Wagner worked with authorities in Thailand to gather
evidence on the child pornography case.
He thought nothing of the envelope when first reaching for it.

A standard, legal-sized manilla type used for business, it was just one more bit of clutter on the table. Jon Walsh was helping his buddy clean and pack for a move from a rental farmhouse in the Francis area. "I was about to crumple it up," Walsh recalls.

The envelope seemed empty. But thinking he'd best double check, Walsh reached inside. His hand landed on a photograph.

"I looked and I went, 'Oh God.'" The 8-½-by-11-inch picture was of a little girl, perhaps nine or 10, standing in a lush, tropical setting.

She appeared posed. And she was naked. "I was literally stuck frozen in my stance right there at the table for this moment going: 'What have I just found?'" The tougher question followed: "Now what do I do?"  (more...)

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