A 50-year-old man from Five Islands, N.S., has been arrested on historical sexual assault and child pornography charges. Police say investigators were directed to the man's residence after receiving information from the National Child Exploitation and Crime Centre on June 8. The RCMP's provincial internet child exploitation unit searched the man's home on Thursday, along with officers from the digital forensic services unit, Cumberland County street crime enforcement unit and Cumberland District RCMP. He is facing charges of possession of child pornography and transmitting child pornography. The man is also charged in relation to a historical sexual assault on a child.

Source: CBC News July 31, 2020 15:44 UTC