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A Winnipeg antheral who victimized hundreds of children crossed the globe with a web of different pedophiles has been sentenced to 19 years successful prison.

Victims of Kenneth Emerson spanned from North America to Europe

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· Posted: Nov 26, 2022 9:56 AM CT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

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A Winnipeg man, arrested successful July 2020, has been sentenced to 19 years successful situation aft helium was charged with net luring arsenic good arsenic respective kid pornography-related offences. (Pixel-Shot/Adobe Stock)

WARNING: This communicative contains disturbing details astir kid abuse.

A Winnipeg antheral who victimized hundreds of children crossed the globe with a web of different pedophiles has been sentenced to 19 years successful prison.

Kenneth Emerson, who is 31, antecedently pleaded blameworthy to 2 counts of net luring and 1 number each of making child pornography, making written kid pornography, possession of kid pornography, organisation of kid pornography, and invitation to sexual touching.

He was sentenced Thursday, a Manitoba Crown authoritative confirmed to CBC.

Emerson was arrested by Winnipeg constabulary successful July 2020, pursuing an undercover investigation.

At that time, constabulary said Emerson, posing arsenic a 14-year-old boy, was successful interaction with an underage unfortunate online for astir a month, earlier the victim's parents recovered out and contacted police.

The probe by the constabulary service's internet kid exploitation unit led to his apprehension and the discovery of tens of thousands of pages of net chat country logs successful which helium manipulated child victims.

Emerson's victims included children successful Canada, the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, New Zealand, Ireland, Romania, Guatemala and Sweden.

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