Winnipeg man accused of arranging child sex abuse online
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A Winnipeg man is accused of discussing sexually abusing children with an undercover American police officer in a private online chatroom.
Winnipeg Police Service online child abuse investigators were tipped off in February by the National Child Exploitation Crime Centre that the American officer, from an undisclosed United States law enforcement agency, was speaking with a Winnipeg suspect.
Winnipeg police allege the two discussed sex abuse before the undercover police officer said he knew of a mother that allowed her 10-year-old daughter to be sexually abused.
The two then made arrangements for the Winnipeg suspect to travel to the United States to sexually assault the girl, police allege.
Winnipeg police investigators executed a warrant on a home on the 900 block of Dorchester Avenue on Thursday and arrested a suspect.
Adam Joseph Leszkovics, 46, has been charged with child-pornography-related offences, communicating to via telecommunication to commit sexual offences against a child and arranging to commit a sexual offence against a person under 16. He was given a release order with court-ordered conditions.