Alberta soldier facing child luring, child porn charges granted bail

An Alberta member of the Canadian Armed Forces who facescharges of child luring and child pornography was granted bail Wednesday.

Cpl. Steven Massey, 32, wascharged in June with child luring, making child pornography and distribution of child pornography, after an investigation bythe Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team and U.S. Homeland Security.

The investigation was launched in March, after Masseyallegedly tried tomeet up with a Texas girl for sex, ALERT said.

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He was released from custody in June on a number of court-imposed conditions. He was soon taken back into custody for breaching a condition of his bail by having a cellphone that connected to the internet.

Massey appeared in provincial court Wednesday over closed-circuit TV from the Edmonton Remand Centre.

He was granted bail based on several new conditions. He cannotbe in possession of electronic devices that can connect to the internet, but he can have a phone with no internet access.

Massey is scheduled to reappear in court in Edmonton on Oct. 5.

He was based in Wainwright, Alta., and had been in and out of the military since 2007. He enlisted and was voluntarily released at leastthree times over the past decade.

He re-enlisted in August 2016. He was thenposted to CFB Wainwright's CanadianManoeuvre Training Centre as a mobile support equipment operator.