Yet Another Child Porn Arrest

This is now, what, the third or fourth separate incident involving child pornography that I have posted here in the last month. These are just the ones where people were dumb enough to be caught; it makes you wonder how many more child predators are out there in the Halifax area, consuming child pornography as part of their daily lives. This one is particularly audacious, not even doing it in the sanctity of his own home, but rather at an internet care right on Spring Garden Road. The place is right next to a McDonald's. Why wasn't his name published? I personally like the idea of making all this information public when it comes to child porn users: put their full name, their address, where they work, all of it, out there. Put it on the police website, put it in the paper, post it on his front lawn. These men are dangers to society and we as a public have a right to know when people who constitute a threat to children are around.

Man caught watching child porn
Sun. Feb 3 - 5:22 AM
Police say staff at an Internet cafe in downtown Halifax phoned them to complain that a 43-year-old man was accessing child pornography at the business on Saturday afternoon.
Halifax Regional Police said the call came in at about 2 p.m. from the business on the 5600 block of Spring Garden Road.
Officers arrested a 43-year-old man at the cafe. He is to appear in Halifax provincial court Monday morning on a charge of possession of child pornography.

UPDATE

The Daily News has a much more detailed story, which includes this piece of information:
Last Wednesday, The Daily News reported on data from a national survey by Toronto's police department showing that thousands of Nova Scotians are actively involved in trading child pornography. In 2007, there were 5,515 Internet Protocol addresses involved in the illegal activity. But there are only seven police officers in the province responsible for these crimes. "We are overwhelmed," Internet Child Exploitation Unit head Cpl. Dave Fox said Wednesday.

This province has a population of under a million people. Knowing that there's more than 5,000 people consuming child pornography should set off alarm bells.