“They can’t be cured.”
— former child exploitation investigator Keith Daniels.
Meet your neighbour, the child pornography enthusiast.
There are about 107 of them on the latest roster released Wednesday and more additions are likely. They are young, they are old, they live in the big cities, they live in small towns, they live on remote Indigenous reserves and overseas.
In a one-month period, the OPP-led (along with 27 other police services) Project Maverick busted online predators from every corner of the province. Sixty-one victims were identified.
None of the charges have been proven in court. The investigation is ongoing.
The charges span generations, from the 18-year-old high school student to the 86-year-old retired businessman. Many are simply named as “Adult Males” which typically means they know or are related to the victim.
Two women were also on the list.
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Cops say some of the images on seized devices were “horrific” and a number of those arrested are repeat offenders.
Tyler Hussey, 42, of Kingston, was charged with three counts of possession of child pornography, and two counts each of accessing child pornography and make available child pornography.
In 2010, Hussey was living in Ottawa. That November he pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual interference and one count each of making child porn and accessing child pornography. When cops busted him he had DVDs entitled “pedo,” “child” and “sex.”
His stash contained more 10,000 images and 1,000 videos of children. Cops said at the time he was downloading child pornography when they arrived at his door.
In this carnage was an eight-year-old girl who found the courage to deliver a chilling impact statement. According to the Ottawa Sun, “it included a drawing of a sad face with a teardrop and words such as ‘happy, sad, confused, mad, angry, scared, shy, and weird.'”
Hussey, of course, apologized to the court. Maybe he even meant it and cited his own abusive childhood.
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Also on the latest list is Nicholas Cooper, 43, of Aurora. He is charged with the distribution, possession and accessing child pornography. Cops also dinged Cooper with three counts of failure to comply with recognizance.
In 2019, Cooper was charged with luring a child to perform pornography. He allegedly had sexually charged conversations using a bogus social media account with a 13-year-old.
Cooper also allegedly chatted online with an adult where he made, distributed, possessed, and accessed child sexual abuse material.
He went by “Megan Ainsley Cole,” “nicojaylass” and “lucanhayder.” He was hit with 20 charges by Toronto Police, including some related to the production, distribution, and accessing of child pornography.
It is not clear what the outcome of that investigation was.
My friend the former sex crimes cop Keith Daniels often said of child pornography that “where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”
But while cops treat the crime as the grave and insidious matter it is, the government can’t seem to bring itself to admit the crime and its practitioners are vile. Instead, pedophilia and sex crimes against children are seen as something that can be fixed, these deviants merely lost lambs.
I hate to break it to you but it can’t be fixed any more than I can be cured of being straight.
“Child pornography is the canary in a coal mine,” Daniels told me several years ago. “These guys will risk everything to protect their stash and keep it under their control. Take a closer look and there’s something worse happening.”
As the man says, they “can’t be cured.”
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