{"id":44041,"date":"2026-05-13T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/44041\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:02:08","slug":"montreal-police-looking-for-potential-victims-of-man-who-allegedly-sexually-assaulted-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/44041\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal police looking for potential victims of man who allegedly sexually assaulted minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal police are looking for potential victims of a 72-year-old man who has been accused of producing child sexual abuse and exploitation material.<\/p>\n<p>SPVM says Daniel Rochefort was taken into custody on May 7 in connection with an investigation into child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege that Rochefort used social media platforms Snapchat and Instagram to contact minors between 2007 and 2026. It is believed that he used the following aliases: <\/p>\n<p>Instagram account: dannyrock16752<\/p>\n<p>Snapchat account: dannyrock201721<\/p>\n<p>Rochefort has been described as 1.73 metres tall, weighing 77 kg, with white hair and blue eyes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"221\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Daniel-Rochefort-en-2009.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image of Daniel Rochefort in 2009. (Courtesy: SPVM)<\/p>\n<p>Police note that he was charged with luring and producing child sexual abuse and exploitation material, sexual assault, sexual contact, and invitation to sexual contact.<\/p>\n<p>SPVM does believe there may be additional victims and is asking if anyone has any information to contact the SPVM\u2019s Sexual Assault Section directly at 514-280-8502 or Info-Crime Montreal at 514-393-1133.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=montreal.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778519238_967_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal police are looking for potential victims of a 72-year-old man who has been accused of producing child&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[50],"class_list":{"0":"post-44041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal","8":"tag-montreal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}