By rdnewsNOW staff

Former Red Deer teacher accused of sexual exploitation, luring to face trial next year

Mar 5, 2018 | 10:44 AM

A former Red Deer high school teacher facing sex-related charges will go to trial a year from now.

Rhett Lundgren, 41, is charged with two counts of luring a child under 18, and single counts of sexual exploitation, making, printing or publishing child porn, and distributing or selling child porn.

Lundgren was a teacher at Hunting Hills High School in 2008 when the alleged offences took place.

Red Deer RCMP charged Lundgren in January 2017 after a female victim, who was 17 at the time, came forward. Lundgren pleaded not guilty and has elected to be tried by judge alone.

The matter sent to trial following a preliminary hearing in January. That trial has been scheduled for March 21, 2019 in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

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The name complainant and details from the preliminary hearing are under publication ban.

Lundgren is also facing child pornography charges out of Saskatoon, where he also worked as a high school teacher. He was arrested in Dec. 2016 and charged with accessing child pornography and arranging to commit a sexual offence against a child. Saskatoon police said the target was a child between the age of eight and 10. His trial on those matters is scheduled for June 18 – 26, 2018 in Saskatoon.