10 Charges Laid in Four-Day Investigation
Three people have been charged with 10 criminal offences during a joint proactive investigation between the OPP Child Sexual Exploitation Unit and Kingston Police.
The child sexual exploitation investigation, named Project Clovelly, focused on identifying persons actively luring children on social media for sexual purposes.
Six trained police investigators from the OPP and Kingston Police utilized undercover techniques to access online chatrooms and social media applications designed for children in order to identify, locate and arrest persons looking to sexually exploit children in the Kingston area.
The investigation took place over four days, from September 20 to 23, 2021.
Project highlights include:
- Two individuals were arrested when they showed up to a pre-set location to meet a child for sexual purposes.
- The third individual was arrested on February 1, 2022, after a variety of techniques were employed to identify the accused.
- One of the suspects traveled from Toronto to Kingston and rented a hotel room in order to sexually abuse a child.
- The accused range in age from 31 to 40.
