Medicine Hat man charged with child luring involving Tennessee girl

 A 38-year-old man from Medicine Hat has been charged pinch online kid luring and kid intersexual exploitation-related offences involving a Tennessee girl, according to ALERT, Alberta’s Law Enforcement Response Team.

ALERT said nan man allegedly coerced nan younker into sharing sexually definitive photos via aggregate online chat applications while pretending to beryllium a 13-year-old youth. The offences day backmost to 2021 erstwhile nan unfortunate was conscionable 11 years old.

“There were complete 7,000 messages exchanged betwixt nan fishy and nan victim,” said Staff Sgt. Mark Auger, pinch ALERT. “We’re talking regular conversations that only stopped erstwhile it was discovered by nan victim’s parent. This further underscores nan request for parents to return a proactive domiciled successful knowing what their children are doing online.”

Police said nan man was arrested connected April 25 astatine his location pursuing a associated investigation between ALERT’s Internet Child Exploitation portion and nan Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force of nan Williamson County Sheriff’s Office successful Tennessee.

In a news merchandise Friday, ALERT said a hunt of nan man’s location led to nan seizure of aggregate computers and physics devices, which are presently being analyzed by investigators.

ALERT said Medicine Hat Police Service helped pinch nan hunt warrant execution.

Tyler Clark faces respective charges including kid luring, making kid pornography and making sexually definitive materials disposable to a child.

“This apprehension was only imaginable pinch nan astonishing responsiveness of nan world web of like-minded Internet Crimes Against Children investigators. Together we transcended borders and remained diligent successful our shared intent of bringing justness to adults that are preying connected our children,” said Det. Paul Lusk, ICAC Task Force.

Police said Clark was released from custody connected a number of court-imposed conditions. He is scheduled to look successful tribunal connected May 22, 2024.

Anyone pinch accusation connected this investigation aliases immoderate kid exploitation is asked to interaction their section police, aliases taxable tips anonymously to Crime Stoppers.