"The message to all pedophiles, and people who want to sexually exploit children on the Internet is that we are on the Internet 24/7, we know where you are and we will find you," Detective Paul Krawczyk said.
The man on the other end of the computer screen knew what he was watching was a horrific blatant display of sexual abuse of a young child... happening live right before his eyes. What he didn't know was who the child was, or where the pervert molesting her was located. It would take less than two hours for the child to be found and rescued- thanks to the hard work of Detective Paul Krawczyk.The girl, a preschooler, was rescued two hours later in what Toronto police's child exploitation unit said was its first case of observing a live assault.
"My first reaction was that I wanted to reach through the monitor and grab the child," said Detective Paul Krawczyk, the undercover officer who witnessed the alleged assault Sunday.
He alerted police in St. Thomas, a city in southwestern Ontario where police believed the man lived, and they were able to track him down in two hours.
"To see this child and look that child in the eyes and realize that the child was live somewhere, being abused, we had to save the child right then," Krawczyk said at a news conference. "The minute we realized what was happening, we went as fast as we could."
Krawczyk belongs to Toronto's Child Exploitation Section, acclaimed for its work tracking down child pornographers on the Internet. Microsoft Corp. teamed with the detectives last year to launch a software program designed to help police forces around the world hunt down child porn Internet traffickers.
We need more people like Krawczyk, a true hero- doing what surely must be the most difficult work and saving the most innocent victims.
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