(PERTH, ON) – Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Child Sexual Exploitation Unit, Technological Crime Unit, Lanark County Detachment and the RCMP’S National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre have arrested and charged a Perth man following a two month child pornography investigation.
On June 2, 2015 police executed a search warrant at a Perth residence after receiving information that an individual at that residence had shared child abuse images over the Internet. As a result of this investigation, three computers and external media were seized which contained images of child sexual abuse.
On June 2, 2015, police arrested Michael Cavanaugh TURNER, 30 years-old of Perth, Ontario. He is charged with one count each of Making Child Pornography, Possessing Child Pornography and Distributing Child Pornography. Turner will appear for a bail hearing on June 4 in the Ontario Court of Justice in Smith Falls, Ontario.
The investigation is continuing.