This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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A Toronto dad, Cliff Ford, posing to be a preteen girl allowed U.S. authorities to arrest and charge Ohio man, who is now sentenced to 21 years in jail. U.S. authorities busted the online child exploitation ring with critical information provided by Ford after his 12-year-old daughter received an email from a stranger.
According to Ford, his daughter received an email in January with the subject line, “Hey sexy.” He explained to have had already asked his children to provide him access to all of their email and social media accounts, so he was able to forward the email to his cellphone. He explained that “I called my daughter right away and I said, ‘I think somebody is sending you inappropriate messages and I have to take over your accounts at this point,'” adding that “we had these rules in place for just this type of situation.”
Ford soon realized that his daughter was messaging a stranger in a chatroom sometime before the email was sent. Ford chose to pose as his daughter over the next three days and convinced the stranger to provide his full name and address. Ford stated that “I had to kind of dig around and ask questions here and there to try and pinpoint not only his location but his full name, and also to capture the chat logs that showed that he was being a predator towards my daughter.” The stranger turned out to be 30-year-old resident of Akron, Ohio, named Nicholas Bowers.
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