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Interprovincial investigation

Man sentenced to decade in prison for child exploitation

Nov 27, 2019 | 11:23 AM

A man arrested in Red Deer earlier this year following a joint investigation involving the Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation Unit (Sask ICE) and the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams Internet Child Exploitation Unit (ALERT ICE) has been ordered to spend the next decade behind bars.

On June 24 of this year, Sask ICE received information regarding two men accessing cloud-based child pornography, sharing child pornography and discussing, through a popular social media application, sexually assaulting children. Sask ICE started an investigation and shared its findings with their Alberta counterparts.

Two days later, search warrants were executed in Rocanville, Saskatchewan and Red Deer. Numerous electronic devices were seized at several locations and two men were arrested.

Two children were rescued safely, police said at the time, and each province’s children’s services departments became involved in their care.

The 40-year-old man arrested in Red Deer was charged with 11 counts. On Nov. 22 in Red Deer provincial court, he pleaded guilty to seven of them and was sentenced to 4105 days in prison (approx. 11 years, three months) minus 224 days’ credit for pre-trial custody, leaving 3791 days (10+ years) to serve. He was also given a lifetime firearms prohibition and has had his named added to Canada’s sex offender registry.

A court-ordered publication ban prevents the sharing of the names of those who were arrested in this case, along with any information related to the identity of the victims.