**** HRP Media Release
Police charge man in relation to child pornography investigation
Police have charged a man after conducting a search in Dartmouth in relation to a child pornography investigation.
Yesterday, investigators in the Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit of the Integrated Criminal Investigation Division conducted a search of an address in Dartmouth after receiving information that a man had obtained and was sharing pornographic material of children under the age of 16 online. Investigators seized a number of electronic devices for forensic analysis.
Brennan Oake, 22, is scheduled to appear in Dartmouth Provincial Court at a later date to face charges of:
- Luring a person under the age of 16
- Providing sexually explicit material to a child
- Publication of an intimate image without consent
- Uttering threats
- Distribution of child pornography
- Possession of child pornography
Anyone with information on child pornography is asked to file a report by calling police at 902-490-5020 or by using Cybertip, Canada’s National Tip Line for reporting online sexual exploitation of children, at www.cybertip.ca.