RCMP laid 343 charges - including charges of sexual assault, possession of child porn, and luring - as part of Operation Snapshot 3, the third phase of an ongoing sweep of online predators.
Sgt. Mike Petrilli told a news conference Thursday morning that 150 people are currently under investigation.
As part of the investigation, which was launched in February and co-ordinated by the RCMP's National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre, police in 40 jurisdictions seized more than one million images.
"These images are not simply children having a bubble bath," Petrilli said. The images show children who are "clearly being sexually assaulted" and they show infants and toddlers. (more...)
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