{"id":7629,"date":"2024-06-27T11:37:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T14:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=7629"},"modified":"2024-06-27T11:37:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T14:37:54","slug":"threats-to-ns-child-leads-to-arrest-of-california-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/threats-to-ns-child-leads-to-arrest-of-california-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Threats to NS Child Leads to Arrest of California Man."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In May 2023, West Hants RCMP received two calls from an eight-year-old who bravely told the call taker that someone was threatening to hurt them and their family unless they sent intimate images through a social platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cst. Walsh, as the responding officer, attended the child\u2019s home for more information and to collect any evidence from the device being used to access the social platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The information and evidence collected clearly indicated someone was attempting to exploit and extort the child and had sent the victim intimate images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the course of the investigation, the West Hants RCMP General Investigation Section confirmed the suspect\u2019s IP address and its originating location of California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators, with assistance of the Nova Scotia RCMP Internet Child Exploitation Unit, then sought the support of the United States Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) based at the US Embassy in Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collaborative efforts that started with the victim, their parent and Cst. Walsh led to HSI identifying the suspect and obtaining a warrant for his arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May 2024, HSI Sacramento arrested a 38-year-old man in California who admitted to victimizing more than 20 children, including the child who courageously reported the incident to West Hants RCMP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The RCMP encourages citizens to be a voice for children who are victims of sexual exploitation by reporting any suspected offences to their local police or by using Canada&#8217;s National tipline for reporting online sexual exploitation of children at https:\/\/cybertip.ca Survivor supports are available, including through Victim Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: RCMP Release <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/cybertip.ca\/en\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2023, West Hants RCMP received two calls from an eight-year-old who bravely told the call taker that someone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-general","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7631,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions\/7631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}