Canadian caught with child abuse in Florida: police

A 25-year-old Canadian man was arrested in Florida over the weekend after police said he had been caught in child sex abuse.

Nicholas Gardener was arrested Saturday, according to a document from the Miami-Dade County Clerk’s Office.

Gardener from Brampton, Ontario was leaving a cruise ship at the PortMiami cruise port when Miami-Dade police arrested him for allegedly “purchasing child sexual abuse material online,” Local 10 News in South Florida reported on Monday. Gardener confessed to the crimes, it reported.

During a search of the home, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer found three illegal videos and two illegal images of girls between the ages of five and eight, according to the arrest report cited by Local 10 News.

He was sentenced to $50,000 in prison on five charges.

Miami-Dade police did not immediately respond to CTVNews.ca’s request for more information.