Canada: Muslim charged for sexually exploiting under-age children

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Under age rape jihad. What is it with Canadian Muslims and minors? Note the almost bizarre wording in this piece about a child rapist. via Child sex tourism: Brampton man charged under federal law aimed at those who exploit children outside Canada | Toronto Star.

Azeem Siddiqi’s knees bobbed like pistons as he sat outside room 207 of the Brampton courthouse last month, head bowed, eyes locked in an unfocused gaze at linoleum flooring.

Posted on a board outside the courtroom door to his right, a piece of paper listed his name nearly a dozen times next to such charges as “sexual interference,” “sexual exploitation,” “distribution” and “possession” of child pornography.

Siddiqi, a 29-year-old living in Brampton, is among the rare few Canadians to ever be charged under a federal sex tourism law aimed at those who exploit children outside the country, a Star investigation has found.

The handsome, clean-cut Canadian of Pakistani descent is alleged to have created, possessed and shared troubling photographic and video images of male and female minors, including sexually touching them with his hands and penis.

The list of 11 charges, none of them yet tested in court, allege Siddiqi distributed pornographic images of a “prepubescent female being sexually exploited,” imported pornography featuring minors and created videos and images of a male and female under the age of 18 years.

When approached for comment outside the courthouse last month, Siddiqi ran into a parking lot where he dodged traffic before disappearing from view.

The investigation by Peel Regional Police’s child exploitation unit that began with Siddiqi has since expanded to include a network of 30 more alleged Internet predators from around the world with whom Siddiqi is accused of sharing images, information it has passed on via the RCMP to police forces in eight countries.

UNICEF estimates there are as many as two million children worldwide involved in the sex trade.

With a search warrant in hand, Morrow visited Siddiqi’s Brampton home a year ago to seize electronic equipment containing images and video. The content of those devices became the basis of possession and distribution of child pornography charges.

One set of images of a young Pakistani boy triggered a further investigation that would eventually lead to an international search for both online predators and their victims.

“After the seizure and review of the device, we formed the grounds to rearrest the accused, Siddiqi, and in the subsequent interview I conducted with him, we learned the identity of the child (in the video).”