The Canadian Centre for Child Protection says it is seeing an alarming increase in reports of children being lured online as an American man accused of kidnapping a teenage girl from Edmonton was set to appear in court Tuesday.
The 13-year-old girl was missing more than a week before she was found in Oregon on Saturday.
Noah Madrano, 40, was arrested by FBI agents and is being held on rape, sexual abuse and kidnapping allegations.
There has been a 120 percent increase in reports of online child luring over the last six months, said Stephen Sauer, director of Cybertip.ca at the centre. Cybertip is Canada’s tip line for reporting online child sexual abuse….