Judge stays child porn case after police mistakenly name youth charged

EDMONTON- A judge has stayed charges in a child pornography case because police mistakenly released the name of a teen suspect.

The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams, or ALERT, published a news release last November announcing 13 arrests for child luring and similar offences.

Later that day, the agency learned one of the suspects it listed as being 18-years-old was actually 17 at the time.

Media outlets were alerted and asked to remove identifying information of the teen.