Child pornography-related charges have been laid against four men following an investigation by the Manitoba RCMP Internet Child Exploitation Unit.
Over an eight-day period in March, police executed five search warrants in three different Southern Manitoba communities, discovering and seizing tens of thousands of child pornography images.
Three children under the age of six were also removed from these homes under speculation that they were being sexually abused and exploited.
The four men arrested ranged in age from 37 to 56.
They were all charged with Distributing/Uploading/Possessing Child Pornography, with one of the suspects also being charged with Making Child Pornography.
Their names and the towns in which the search warrants were executed were not released in order to protect the identity of the victims.
