Four Southwestern Ontario men swept up in child luring investigation

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One man swept up in an Ontario-wide crackdown on online luring brought snacks to a meeting he thought was with a child. Another man arrived to a similarly arranged encounter with condoms and lubricant.

Those are some of the disturbing details provincial police released Thursday as part of the results of a provincewide crackdown on child luring and exploitation that led to the arrests of 36 men, including four from Southwestern Ontario.

During the investigation from March 31 to April 11, officers posed as children in online chatrooms and on social media platforms, where they waited for suspects to contact them, the OPP said.

Thirty-six men, including