Edmonton man charged with 15 online child exploitation offences
An Edmonton man has been charged with 15 offences related to online child exploitation after an international investigation.
The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team's (ALERT) internet child exploitation unit charged Cordell Campbell on July 15 with several offences, including three counts of luring a child, three counts of making sexually explicit material available to a child and making child pornography, among others, according to an ALERT media release on Monday.
His arrest and the charges against the 32-year-old came after the RCMP's National Child Exploitation Crime Centre, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation investigated him for allegedly luring children online and sharing sexually exploitative material involving children.
Incidents include cases in the United Kingdom in May 2023 involving a 13-year-old girl and in Kansas City, Mo., in June last year involving an 11-year-old girl.
The ALERT unit started to investigate Campbell in December and concluded that they believe Campbell has been sexually exploiting children online since 2023.
Campbell has been released from police custody. His next court date is slated for Aug. 20.
Police ask anyone with information on the investigation into Campbell or on any child exploitation activity to call their local detachment or Crime Stoppers.
ALERT is an umbrella police agency created by the provincial government in 2006 that uses 400 municipal and RCMP officers in several dedicated teams to investigate serious and organized crime.
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