Police arrest 348 in Canada-led global child porn investigation Of concern to the investigators was the number of people (arrested) who have close contact with children. The arrests included 40 school teachers, nine doctors and nurses, 32 people who volunteered with children, six law enforcement personnel, nine pastors or priests, and three foster parents," Inspector Joanna Beaven-Desjardins, head of Toronto's Sex Crimes Unit, told a news conference. It is alleged that officers seized hundreds of thousands of videos detailing horrific sexual acts against very young children, some of the worst that they have ever viewed, More than 350,000 images and over 9,000 videos of child sexual abuse were found during the probe, and arrests are continuing, Beaven-Desjardins said. The investigation began with a tip-off in 2005 that Brian Way, a Toronto businessman with a production company, was allegedly distributing suspect videos. Police allege that Way, 42, instructed associates around the world to create the videos of children ranging from five to 12 years of age, which he then distributed via his company, Azov Films, to international customers. Way has been in jail since 2011 awaiting trial, while the producers who made the illegal films have been convicted in their home countries, police said. The videos included naked boys from Germany, Romania and Ukraine, which Azov marketed as naturist films and claimed were legal in Canada and the United States. Police said they executed a search warrant at Way's company and home, seizing about 1,000 pieces of evidence including computers, servers, DVD burners, an editing suite and hundreds of films. Insp Beaven-Desjardins said the investigation is ongoing and believed more arrests will be made. Way's lawyer, Nyron Dwyer, declined to comment. Edited by Josie Ensor