Threatened to expose two children who wanted to stop providing illicit materials

Luring preteens over the internet to supply child pornography, while extorting two of those children with threats of exposure to get more illicit material, has landed a Cochrane man a seven-year sentence.

Justice Greg Stirling accepted a joint submission from Crown prosecutor Tara Hayes and defence counsel Kirsten Lancee for that punishment.

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With credit for custodial time served since his arrest two years ago, Bransyn Lyon will have another 4½ years to serve.

Before Stirling sentenced him Lyon, 21, offered a teary apology for the damage he caused to both his known victims and others he preyed upon.

“I know sorry will never be enough,” a crying Lyon told the Calgary Court of Justice sen

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