Strathcona County mother charged with international sexual exploitation of her toddler

Material found on devices of a California man charged with sexual misconduct led law enforcement to the home of an Alberta woman who was allegedly sexually exploitering her child.

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A Strathcona County mother has been charged with sexual exploitation after an investigation linked her to international sexual exploitation of her toddler.

ALERT Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit rescued the child from the home on Saturday after receiving a tip from the FBI about “prolific and ongoing sexual abuse of a young child in Alberta,” read an ALERT Edmonton news release Tuesday.

In October in Yuba City, California, Brian Davis, 30, was charged “with suspicion of oral copulation with a victim under 10 years old, possession of obscene matter involving a minor in sexual acts with the intent to distribute,” said ALERT.

Devices later seized from the man found that he was talking to an Edmonton-area woman over the social media platform Kik.

“The chats depicted and communicated graphic sexual abuse of the woman’s child,” said ALERT.

The information gathered in this case was taken to ICE by the FBI.

The child was taken to hospital and is receiving support and care from several established organizations, including Alberta Children’s Services and Zebra Center for Child Protection. The child’s father was not aware of what was happening and has been cooperative with police, ALERT said.