Sylvan Lake doctor arrested for trying to arrange sex with child
A well-known family physician from Sylvan Lake stands accused of trying to arrange sex with a young girl.
The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) says Dr. Fred Janke was arrested in Edmonton on Thursday. The 62-year-old faces charges of making arrangements to commit sexual offences against a child, making child pornography, and distribution of child pornography.
Dating back to October 2017, ALERT says Janke had allegedly been engaged in sexually explicit conversations with a person he met online. The sexual conversations allegedly progressed to Janke attempting to arrange for sex with the person’s 5-year-old daughter. However, the daughter did not exist and Janke had actually been speaking with a Victoria Police Department undercover operator.
According to ALERT, the Victoria Police Department’s ICE (Internet Child Exploitation) unit had been conducting a proactive, online investigation involving a website that is known to host online chat rooms geared towards child sex. Once the Victoria Police Department ICE investigators determined the suspect was based in Alberta, the information was referred to ALERT’s ICE Unit.