3 arrested on P.E.I. in connected with national child porn investigation

Carolyn Ryan · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 26, 2025 1:22 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

Raids conducted connected Prince Edward Island connected to a nationalist cognition to combat kid pornography person led to charges against 3 people. 

Two men aged 60 and 24 are charged with possession of kid pornography and transmitting kid pornography, while a younker is facing charges of possessing and distributing kid pornography, according to an RCMP quality merchandise Wednesday. 

"Our precedence is protecting children from online predators who exploit integer platforms to perpetrate devastating crimes," Cpl. Robert Yaschuk of the P.E.I. RCMP Internet Child Exploitation Unit was quoted arsenic saying. 

"Every lawsuit we analyse is simply a measurement toward ensuring that offenders are brought to justice."

The nationalist cognition code-named Project STEEL was led by the Ontario and Quebec provincial constabulary forces and the RCMP's National Child Exploitation Crime Centre. 

The quality merchandise said it grew to impact "63 instrumentality enforcement partners crossed Canada," with enactment taken from Feb. 17 to 28. 

Search warrants executed connected P.E.I. led to the 3 suspects being charged. They are each scheduled to look successful tribunal connected antithetic days successful April, with the 60-year-old antheral appearing successful Summerside provincial and the different 2 successful Charlottetown.