Okotoks man charged after thousands of child sexual exploitation photos found - BERITAJA

Alberta’s ALERT and the Internet Child Exploitation portion person charged an Okotoks man aft a disturbing find of thousands of kid intersexual exploitation photos and videos precocious past month.

Police opportunity they raided the location of 35-year-old Corey Airhart connected May 26, uncovering a postulation of much than 500,000 photos and videos connected respective difficult drives and computers.

ICE says it’s 1 of the largest collections of intersexual exploitation photos and videos the group has ever found.

In the past year, not including this seizure, ICE identified 622,150 photos and videos containing kid intersexual exploitation provincewide.

“Behind each 1 of the photos and videos is simply a existent kid location successful this world that is being exploited for a intersexual purpose,” said ICE Staff Sgt. Gordon MacDonald. “A postulation of this size is profoundly disturbing, arsenic it would person besides apt been utilized to waste and acquisition and substance demand.”

ICE says its investigation began successful January 2026 aft different rule enforcement agency became alert of accusation about a fishy uploading kid intersexual exploitation materials.

Airhart was charged pinch possessing and accessing kid intersexual maltreatment materials.

He has since been released from custody and is scheduled to look successful tribunal successful Okotoks connected Aug. 8.