Penhold soccer coach facing child sexual exploitation charges<\/p>\n
Published 3:00 pm Thursday, July 16, 2026<\/p>\n
A Penhold soccer coach has been charged with child sexual exploitation offences following a law enforcement investigation.<\/p>\n
The Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit of Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) said a suspect was arrested on July 9 with the assistance of Innisfail RCMP.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis suspect was identified after a proactive effort by our ICE investigators to target offenders who were trading high volumes of child sexual exploitation materials online,\u201d said ALERT Staff Sgt. Gordon MacDonald.<\/p>\n
ICE\u2019s investigation began in January 2026. ICE continues to investigate and forensic technicians are analyzing computers seized from the suspect\u2019s Penhold home.<\/p>\n
ALERT says the 46-year-old suspect was a soccer coach and board member of Penhold Minor Soccer Association. He also appeared as a children\u2019s entertainer and a mascot in the past.<\/p>\n
Scott McNabb has been charged with possessing, accessing and distributing child sexual abuse and exploitation materials.<\/p>\n
McNabb was released from custody on a number of court-imposed conditions, including not to be in contact with anyone under the age of 16 years old. He is next due in Red Deer Court of Justice on July 30.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact local police or Crime Stoppers (1-800-222-TIPS).<\/p>\n
ALERT was established and is funded by the Alberta Government and is a compilation of the province\u2019s most sophisticated law enforcement resources committed to tackling serious and organized crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penhold soccer coach facing child sexual exploitation charges Published 3:00 pm Thursday, July 16, 2026 A Penhold soccer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-806649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806649","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=806649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}