Toronto man caught in U.S. online child predator sting sentenced to 10 years in prison

A Toronto man was sentenced to a decade in U.S. federal prison this week after travelling to Virginia last year to meet a girl he thought was 15 and had been trying to coerce into a sexual relationship, but who turned out to be an undercover police officer.

When arrested in June, Tommy Varesh, 54, “was carrying black lingerie and emergency contraception,” the state’s eastern district U.S. Attorney’s Office ...