Following years of criminal activity involving the production, possession and distribution of child sexual exploitation material, an Ottawa man has been convicted of his offences, in what was one of the largest such seizures by the RCMP ever in Canada.
On June 10, 2021, Tristen Alexandre Perrier, 68, of Ottawa, Ontario appeared in the Ontario Provincial Court and was sentenced to 5.5 years in jail minus 11 days served
The RCMP’s Victim Identification Unit, a unit within the National Child Exploitation Crime Centre, initiated an investigation into Perrier in January 2020.
On June 30th, 2020, the RCMP, with assistance from the Ottawa Police Service Internet Child Exploitation Unit, executed search warrants at multiple locations. Perrier was arrested and subsequently released on strict conditions, including not being able to live alone or be in unsupervised company of minors and not allowed to possess a device that could access the internet.
Although he has plead guilty to crimes committed in Canada, the RCMP does not have information to suggest the man committed sexual offences against any Canadian children. Some of the man’s activities occurred while traveling abroad and involved crimes carried out over many years on the dark web.
When imposing the 5.5 year sentence, Justice Wadden of the Ontario Court of Justice stated that Perrier had “glorified and memorialized” the sexual abuse of impoverished children through creating flashy magazine covers depicting it, and in so doing contributed to “this institutional form of sexual violence, which is akin to sexual slavery”.
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