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[h=1]CANADIAN MAN MET S'POREAN GIRL ONLINE THEN ALLEGEDLY RAPED HER[/h]
Post date:
13 Apr 2015 - 1:20pm
A 37-year-old Winnipeg man has been accused of befriending a 16-year-old girl from Singapore while playing an online video game -- then repeatedly raping her and taking explicit nude photos after she came to Canada.
James Brian Stephenson was recently arrested on a string of serious criminal charges. None of the allegations has been proven and he is presumed innocent. Stephenson appeared in a Winnipeg courtroom Friday where he was granted bail, despite objections from the Crown. A court-ordered ban prevents specific details of the hearing from being published. Stephenson’s release conditions include having no contact with the now 18-year-old woman or any children under the age of 16.
Sources say the teen and her mother got into Canada based on the fact she was apparently engaged to Stephenson, despite the considerable age difference between them. A sponsorship process was also underway at the time the criminal allegations began to surface. But the woman is now taking the position she is not involved romantically with him in any way.
Stephenson was first arrested last October and charged with assaulting the teen shortly after they began living together in Winnipeg last summer. Additional charges now of sexual assault, Internet luring and child pornography were laid as the investigation expanded.
Stephenson first met the teen while playing an online video game in 2012 -- when she would have been just 16 and he was 35. He previously told the Free Press the pair then got "married" in the virtual world they were part of. He claims they quickly discovered several mutual interests, including music and martial arts, and continued chatting for several months.
*Read the rest of the article at http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Man-who-befriended-Singapore-girl...
Post date:
13 Apr 2015 - 1:20pm
A 37-year-old Winnipeg man has been accused of befriending a 16-year-old girl from Singapore while playing an online video game -- then repeatedly raping her and taking explicit nude photos after she came to Canada.
James Brian Stephenson was recently arrested on a string of serious criminal charges. None of the allegations has been proven and he is presumed innocent. Stephenson appeared in a Winnipeg courtroom Friday where he was granted bail, despite objections from the Crown. A court-ordered ban prevents specific details of the hearing from being published. Stephenson’s release conditions include having no contact with the now 18-year-old woman or any children under the age of 16.
Sources say the teen and her mother got into Canada based on the fact she was apparently engaged to Stephenson, despite the considerable age difference between them. A sponsorship process was also underway at the time the criminal allegations began to surface. But the woman is now taking the position she is not involved romantically with him in any way.
Stephenson was first arrested last October and charged with assaulting the teen shortly after they began living together in Winnipeg last summer. Additional charges now of sexual assault, Internet luring and child pornography were laid as the investigation expanded.
Stephenson first met the teen while playing an online video game in 2012 -- when she would have been just 16 and he was 35. He previously told the Free Press the pair then got "married" in the virtual world they were part of. He claims they quickly discovered several mutual interests, including music and martial arts, and continued chatting for several months.
*Read the rest of the article at http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Man-who-befriended-Singapore-girl...
