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An Ottawa man faces a child pornography charge after a seven-month investigation that led investigators to his home computer.

In late November 2016, the National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre forwarded the Ottawa police’s Internet Child Exploitation Unit reports it had received from the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children’s tip line.

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These reports, submitted by Microsoft, indicated that an IP address in the Ottawa area was noted to have uploaded images of child pornography using a cloud storage service — specifically “Microsoft OneDrive.” A search warrant was executed Wednesday at an Ambleside Drive home where digital devices were located and seized.

Paul O’Reilly, 61, of Ottawa is charged with one count of accessing child pornography. He will appear at show cause court on Thursday.

Anonymous tips can be submitted by calling Crime Stoppers at 613-233-8477 (TIPS), toll-free at 1-800-222-8477 or downloading the Ottawa Police app.