Oyen teen will face judge and jury over child luring, porn charges

By Peggy Revell on June 6, 2018.

prevell@medicinehatnews.com @MHNprevell

An Oyen man facing child luring and pornography charges will be tried by a Court of Queen’s Bench judge and jury, with preliminary hearing.

These elections were entered Tuesday at the Medicine Hat Courthouse for 18-year-old Austin Palmer, with defence counsel also adjourning to get dates for these hearings.

Palmer was charged following a joint investigation between the Oyen RCMP and Medicine Hat ALERT’s Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit.

Police say that on Feb. 28, they were contacted by a parent who had found concerning messages on her daughter’s cellphone between the daughter and an adult male.

Palmer was arrested March 5, with a search warrant executed at his Oyen residence. A number of electronic devices were seized.

Charges faced include two counts of luring a child, possession of child pornography, accessing child pornography, distributing child pornography and failing to comply with a probation order.

He was released on a $3,000 no-cash recognizance in May, with his father acting as a surety and requirements to remain under 24/7 house arrest in Oyen, and absolutely no access to electronics that would give him access to the Internet.

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