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By Derek Abma

A Christian-oriented activist group said Friday it plans to launch a website for identifying pedophiles.

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Canada Family Action said its website will be called FindAPedophile.com. Brian Rushfeldt, president of the organization, said he hopes to have the site operational by March.

The Calgary-based group said the recent bust of 60 people in Ontario on hundreds of child pornography charges is proof that such a resource is needed.

Rushfeldt said as people charged with child-sex crimes are convicted, his group will post as much information on them as is available. That will include their names, their offences and where the crimes took place.

Because it’s usually not publicly available, he said, most of the entries won’t have the offenders’ exact locations after their release. He noted the national registry on sex offenders, used by police, is not available to the general public.

“There is a lot of concern out there that nobody has access to any of this kind of information on these pedophiles,” Rushfeldt said.

“I think (police) protect (pedophiles) a bit because they don’t want vigilantes going after these guys, and nor do we,” he added, though he said he feels locations of released offenders should be made public for safety reasons.

Rushfeldt said the information will be gathered from sources such as the courts, police and media reports.

The website is also to contain information on how to detect signs that children might be victims of sexual abuse.

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