A 19-year-old man from Beaverlodge, Alta., has been charged after police allege he coerced an underage girl in B.C. into sharing explicit photos and videos.
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A 19-year-old man from Beaverlodge, near the Alberta–B.C. boundary, has been charged following allegations involving an underage girl in British Columbia, police say.
Police allege the accused met the girl on the online gaming platform Roblox before the two began messaging on Snapchat.
According to the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT), the messages later turned sexual, and ALERT Acting Sgt. Matt Pepper said diverting conversations to other platforms is a common tactic used by offenders to evade detection and, in some cases, bypass existing safety protocols.
ALERT says the alleged messages were discovered by the girl’s parents, who contacted Kelowna RCMP, leading to the identification of a suspect.
The accused, identified as Kenneth Livesey, was arrested Oct. 29 and charged with child luring, making sexually explicit materials available to a child, making child sexual abuse and exploitation material, and possessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material.
The allegations have not been tested in court, and Livesey is scheduled to appear in court in Grande Prairie on Nov. 18.
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