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A Calgary man is facing 21 charges, including for child luring and extortion, after allegedly using social media to lure young girls.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old man was arrested March 17 after three victims contacted police, according to the internet child exploitation unit (ICE) of the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT).<\/p>\n
The charges followed an investigation that involved the Calgary Police Service, Red Deer RCMP and Morinville RCMP.<\/p>\n
ICE said the man was an assistant coach with a girls’ hockey team in Calgary when he was arrested. <\/p>\n
Possible online aliases believed to have been used by the accused lurer include “iggypup,” “wakanda4ever,” “MJ” and “007,” which are various popular culture references.<\/p>\n
His alleged social media activity included luring young girls online and demanding sexual content.<\/p>\n
According to ICE, the victims between the ages of seven and 15 were identified in the central Alberta communities of Red Deer and Morinville. ICE believes there are likely more than the three that contacted police.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur priority is to protect children and help those that have been victimized. We have digital evidence that points to other victims and we are hoping they can come forward and share their information with police,\u201d said ICE Const. Mackenzie Jordan in a release.<\/p>\n
Charges faced by the man include child luring, invitation to sexual touching, extortion, uttering threats, making sexually explicit materials available to a child, and the making, distribution, possession and accessing of child sexual abuse materials.<\/p>\n
The man will appear in court Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-558060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}