Please see our Commenting Policy for more. Video released by the group once known as Surrey Creep Catchers Wednesday shows a man who they say is the employee being confronted over an apparent months-long correspondence between himself and a year-old girl, who was actually group member Ryan Laforge conducting a sting operation. Laforge told Global News he arranged the meeting with the man after discovering he was a Township of Langley employee. Over the course of the conversation, the man admits he went on a dating site intending to have sexual conversations, and eventually made contact with someone he thought was an year-old woman.
Laforge then says the girl admitted to being 13 during their correspondence, which the man appears to agree with. The man then says he planned to meet with the girl five or six times before cancelling each time. That was when Laforge says he discovered he was talking to a township employee. Laforge then confronts the man on his marriage and his children, one of whom the man admits is a year-old girl. Creep Catchers is a loose collection of organizations across Canada whose members claim to expose people they allege are child sexual predators by posing online as minors before meeting in person to film and berate their targets.
In a statement, the Township of Langley confirmed the suspect is an employee who is currently on leave. The township added it will cooperate with any RCMP investigation, and that there will be no further comment.
Creep Catchers stings have ensnared high-profile people across the Lower Mainland and the Fraser Valley before. In , separate stings led to charges against both a member of the Surrey RCMP and a former Mission elementary school principal. The charges against the principal were later stayed, but the RCMP member was sentenced to four months to be served in the community for breach of trust after being discharged from the force. World Canada Local. Full Menu Search Menu. Close Local your local region National.
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