Alberta
Edmonton teacher arrested for child luring

From the Internet Child Exploitation Unit (ICE) of the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT)
An Edmonton teacher has been charged with child luring and child pornography offences by ALERT’s Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit. The teacher is also being investigated for similar offences related to an ongoing investigation in Florida.
On May 20, 2023, Brennan Gorman was arrested at his St. Albert, Alta. home with the assistance of St. Alberta RCMP and RCMP Major Crimes unit (MCU). The 27-year-old man was charged with child luring, making, transmitting, and possessing child pornography, in relation to sex offences he allegedly committed against a female youth in Parkland County.
ICE was actively targeting Gorman as the suspect in the Parkland County case when they received a tip from the West Palm Bay County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. Authorities in Florida were investigating the disappearance of a female youth and had information that Gorman may have been involved or had knowledge of her disappearance.
ICE and RCMP worked collaboratively due to the seriousness of the investigation and Gorman was quickly located and arrested as a result.
The youth was later found safe in Florida and there isn’t a reason to believe Gorman was involved in her disappearance. However, additional child luring and child pornography charges are pending against him as a result of his online interactions with the youth.
Gorman was employed as a teacher and most recently worked at Balwin Junior High School, where he taught children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. He has also worked at Belmead School (2022) and Good Shepherd Elementary School (2020). ICE have also learned Gorman worked at the following daycares in the past:
- Little Learners Fort Rd (2021)
- Little Learners St. Albert (2021)
- Klarvatten Plaza Daycare, Edmonton (2019 – 2020)
- Richard Secord Out of School Care, Edmonton (2018-2019)
- Discoveryland Childcare & OSC, Edmonton (2018)
Edmonton Public Schools is cooperating with the investigation, as are the daycare facilities.
Gorman may also use the alias “Steve” and has been identifying himself as a teacher to the victims.
ICE believes there are additional victims in the Edmonton area and is asking anyone with information about Gorman to contact Edmonton Police Service non-emergency line at 780-423-4567, their local RCMP detachment, or anonymously online at Cybertip.ca.
Gorman has been released from custody and is scheduled to appear in court on June 5, 2023. He was released on a number of court-imposed conditions, including not being unable to maintain employment that would place him in the position of trust or authority over a youth, and not to attend any schools.
ALERT was established and is funded by the Alberta Government and is a compilation of the province’s most sophisticated law enforcement resources committed to tackling serious and organized crime.
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Alberta
Police arrest two more people following killing of eight-year-old girl in Alberta

An Edmonton Police Service logo is shown at a press conference in Edmonton, Oct. 2, 2017. Police in Edmonton have charged two more people following the killing of an eight-year-old girl whose remains were found on a First Nation south of the provincial capital in April. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Edmonton
Police in Edmonton have charged two more people following the killing of an eight-year-old girl whose remains were found on a First Nation south of the provincial capital.
Officers responded on April 24 to a welfare call about the girl at an Edmonton home but were unable to locate her.
Her remains were discovered five days later on the Samson Cree Nation in Maskwacis.
Shayden Lightning, who is 21, and Raighne Stoney, who is 36, have been charged with being an accessory to murder and causing an indignity to a body.
Three others were initially charged in the case.
Police are not releasing the names of two of the accused in order to protect the identities of other children related to the victim, whose identity is under a publication ban.
A 27-year-old woman faces a charge of first-degree murder and a 25-year-old man faces charges of being an accessory to murder and causing an indignity to a body.
Edward Nievera, 67, was charged with being an accessory to murder and causing an indignity to a body.
Edmonton police Staff Sgt. Colin Leathem said in a release Friday that the recent arrests will be the last in the case and that the investigation has concluded.
“We want to thank the RCMP in Maskwacis and Wetaskiwin for their assistance with this investigation,” he said. “Needless to say, this was an exceptionally distressing investigation to work on, and they went above and beyond in helping to facilitate these final arrests and bring this file to conclusion.
“While nothing can change the horror of what occurred, we hope (the arrests) can provide some measure of justice to those who knew and loved this little girl.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 22, 2023.
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