Cornwall police charge teen with child sex abuse and exploitation offences
Summary of charges released by the Cornwall Police Service on Oct. 14, 2026, leading with an investigation by the internet child exploitation unit.
A 16-year-old boy is facing four charges following an investigation by the Cornwall police’s internet child exploitation unit.
The investigation began in February. Investigators alleged that between Jan. 19 and Sept. 2, the teen accessed and possessed child sexual-abuse and exploitation material, and produced such material for other people. He was taken into custody at police headquarters on Tuesday.
The teen, whose identity cannot be released under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was charged with makes, prints, publishes, or possesses for the purposes of publication of any child sexual abuse and exploitation material; imports, distributes, or possesses for the purpose of distribution any child sexual abuse and exploitation material; possession of child sexual abuse and exploitation material; and, access any child sexual abuse and exploitation material.
He was held in police custody pending a bail hearing in Cornwall court.
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Assaults, weapons, confinement
Two people from Cornwall are each facing various charges after police responded to an intimate-partner violence complaint on Tuesday.
Police alleged a 47-year-old woman assaulted her boyfriend with an edged weapon causing injuries, struck the man on the head with a plate, and burned him using a candle. Police also alleged a 40-year-old man assaulted his girlfriend, choked her, threw a skateboard at her, and confined the woman.
The woman was charged with domestic assault causing bodily harm; three counts of domestic assault with a weapon; possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose; and, two counts of breach of probation for possessing a weapon and failing to keep the peace. The man was charged with assault causing bodily harm — choke, suffocate, or strangle; domestic assault with a weapon; domestic assault; and, forcible confinement.
Both people were held in police custody pending bail hearings in Cornwall court.
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Assault, fail to attend, breaches
A 17-year-old girl from Cornwall is facing four charges after separate police investigations.
Police alleged the teen failed to appear in Cornwall court on Oct. 1, after which a warrant was issued for her arrest. Police also alleged the teen breached her court-ordered conditions when she communicated with a specific person she was prohibited from communicating with, and assaulted another person (her ex-boyfriend), injuring him. She was taken into custody at police headquarters on Tuesday.
The teen, whose identity cannot be released under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was charged with assault causing bodily harm — domestic; failure to attend court after having appeared; and, two counts of breach of undertaking for communicating with a specific person.
She was held in police custody pending a bail hearing in Cornwall court.
Toronto man charged in child sexual abuse and exploitation investigation
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A Toronto man has been arrested and charged in a child sexual abuse and exploitation material investigation in the city’s west end.
On Wednesday, officers with the Toronto Police Service Internet Child Exploitation unit executed a search warrant at a residence in the St. Clair Avenue West and Keele Street area.
As a result, Joshua Dauphin, 25, of Toronto, was arrested and charged with four counts of agree with a person to arrange to commit a sexual offence of a child by means of telecommunication and one count of make child sexual abuse and exploitation material in the form of written material.
The charges have not been tested in court.
He was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday morning.
Close to home. Just 4 or 5 miles from where I grew up in Nova Scotia.
Eastern Shore man headed to trial on charges of luring, sexually abusing girl
Sawyer Gillis, 29, of Upper Lakeville faces three-day hearing in May and June 2027
An Eastern Shore man will go on trial next May on allegations of luring and sexually abusing a girl.
The offences were allegedly committed between January 2019 and October 2025. The identity of the complainant is protected by a publication ban.
Defence lawyer Jordan Richard entered not-guilty pleas for Gillis last month and returned to court Wednesday to confirm the trial dates.
Judge Jill Hartlen scheduled the trial to begin May 21, 2027, and also sit June 17 and June 18. Lisandra Naranjo Hernandez is prosecuting the case.
Gillis was arrested in October 2025 and released on an undertaking to a police officer. The undertaking was replaced in December with a bail order that was amended in February to include one surety and a $1,000 pledge.
Gillis cannot have any contact with the complainant or be within 25 metres of her home, school or workplace.
He’s prohibited from having any firearms and cannot possess any device capable of connecting to the internet unless he’s supervised by one of two designated women.
In addition, he is banned from communicating with or being around anyone under the age of 16 and from attending parks, playgrounds, daycares, school grounds, swimming pools, rinks, community centres or any other places where children are likely to be present. There are exceptions to those two conditions if he’s in the “immediate physical presence of an adult who does not have a criminal record.”
Gillis also faces a charge of breaching his release conditions last April 11. He has yet to enter a plea on that matter.
