Ontario man re-arrested, accused of luring teen

An Ontario man, already in custody in connection to the sexual assault of a teenage girl, is facing new charges including possession of child pornography and luring another girl.

The Winnipeg Police Service announced additional charges against Scott Christopher Alcorn, 49, on Monday. Alcorn, from Red Lake, Ont., was previously arrested in April and charged with sexual assault and interference.

Police accused him of communicating with a girl in her mid-teens over social media, “gaining the victim’s trust while forming a relationship” and then travelling about 255 kilometres to Winnipeg where she was sexually assaulted.

“As part of the investigation, electronic devices were seized and police discovered sexually explicit material and communication involving a second teenage girl,” police said Monday.

“The survivor was identified and a warrant of arrest was issued.”

Investigators went to the Headingley Correctional Centre on Thursday and re-arrested Alcorn.

He was charged with possession of child pornography, luring a person under 16 years by telecommunications and transmitting, making available, distributing or selling sexually explicit material to a person under 16 years.

The new charges stem from offences alleged to have occurred between between October 2024 and April 2025, police said.

Alcorn, who remains in custody, was previously convicted in the Manitoba Court of King’s Bench in December 2020 of one count of obtaining sexual services for consideration from a person under 18 and given a 15-month jail term.

Alcorn had traded a 60-ounce bottle of rum for sex with the 16-year-old girl on June 30, 2015, court heard. He twice offered alcohol to the girl, first in June and later in August that same year, Parole Board of Canada records state.

His victim died by suicide in 2016.

She was described in court as a high-risk youth with multiple mental health and addiction issues who traded sex to survive. Alcorn and the girl talked over social media, and Alcorn agreed to give the girl a bottle of liquor in exchange for intercourse, court heard at trial.

The Manitoba Court of Appeal struck down Alcorn’s 15-month jail term in 2021 and imposed a sentence of five years in prison, less time served, amounting to a further three-and-a-half-year sentence.

The appeal court ruled Alcorn’s original sentencing judge erred by not treating the crime with the same gravity as other sexual offences against children.

Alcorn applied for leave to appeal the increased sentence to the Supreme Court of Canada, which was dismissed in June 2022.

He was granted full parole in April 2023, a parole board decision said.

Correctional officials assessed Alcorn at the time as a low risk to reoffend sexually and in general.

tyler.searle@freepress.mb.ca