Moncton man pleads guilty to 5 more charges in child exploitation case

A 25-year-old Moncton man has pleaded guiltyto an additional five charges related to child pornography and exploitation that involvesvictims around the world.

The charges were laid in March, in provincial court.

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The man, who can not be identified due to a publication ban, had previously pleaded guilty to producing child pornography, sexual assault, and making child pornography available.

The man appeared in the Court of Queen's Bench Monday beforeJustice Zoel Dionne.

The judge read out each of the five charges to the man, and he pleaded guilty to each one.

The charges include making child pornography,extortion, by threatening to distribute nude videos of victims to their friends and parents, child luring for purposes of child pornography through use of a computer, making sexually explicit material available to a child and making child pornography available.

The man, dressed in grey sweats, showed little reaction.

A sentencing hearing has been scheduled forAug. 30 and 31.

Multiple victims

RCMP Sgt. Jean-Marc Pare hadpreviously saidthere are multiple victims for each of the charges with up to 40 victims per charge in some cases.

The RCMP alleged the man posed online as a teenager and lured boys as young as 10 years old into removing their clothing and initiating a sexual act that the man then recorded and distributed online.

Pare said there were no known victims from New Brunswick, but thousands worldwide and one in Canada.

The majority of victims were boys between the ages of 10and 16 years, he said.

Victims have been identified in the United States, England, Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, Ukraine, Belgium, Norway, Germany, France and Latvia, RCMP have said.

The RCMP have also said there may be more than 2,000 victims worldwide, with some not even aware they have been victimized.