Canadian Supreme Court Provides Broad View of Internet Luring
The Supreme Court of Canada has made a ruling last year (just hearing about it now) that will help to “close the cyberspace door” on Internet predators and make it easier to enforce Canada’s criminal ban against luring children online. I have to say, honestly, once again, Canada bests us in effectiveness (see: healthcare). At least their Supreme Court made a clear cut decision on what is constitutes Internet luring…maybe someday ours can get around to it.
In the meantime, use PC Pandora 6.0 to know who your kids are talking to online and more importantly, who is trying to talk to them!
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December 3, 2009
Supreme Court provides broad view of Internet luring
By Janice Tibbetts, Canwest News Service
The Supreme Court of Canada concluded that “sexually explicit comments” may be enough to constitute a crime.
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada moved Thursday to “close the cyberspace door” on Internet predators in a unanimous ruling that is expected to make it easier to enforce Canada’s criminal ban against luring children online.
The court overturned a trial judge’s acquittal of Craig Bartholomew Legare and ordered a new trial on charges of luring a 12-year-old girl with whom he allegedly had online sex chats.
The Edmonton man had argued he committed no crime because he never tried to meet the girl.
