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Cameron Lyons targeted teenage girls as young as 14 on social media under the guise of recruiting them as models or high-priced escorts.
Instead, they faced exploitation ranging from rape to online harassment.
The 40 year old pleaded guilty Monday to a dozen charges — including sexual assault, criminal harassment, luring and attempting to traffic a person under 18 — involving eight victims over a decade.
Judge Marlyse Dumel heard how Lyons, a former volunteer equipment manager for the University of Ottawa’s football team, used MSN Messenger, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr accounts and aliases including “Joe Howorth” and “Steve Debone” to meet and exploit teenage girls.
The first was in 2006 and the last in 2016 when Lyons contacted a Facebook Messenger account he believed belonged to a 17-year-old girl and offered her as much as $2,000 to meet up with “generous” men, court heard.
But it was really a covert account belonging to city police who arrived to arrest Lyons at the Rideau Centre based on his description that he’d be wearing a maroon-and-grey sweater.
Lyons had asked the fictitious girl to “dress sexy and wear heels” to the meet.
Officers then connected the Facebook accounts to an IP address linked to Lyons’ home address and computers, hard drives and phones found in his room.
A string of victims appeared in an agreed statement of facts read in court Monday. Lyons often bowed his head or covered his face with a hand as he listened.
He found an 18-year-old victim on dating site Plenty of Fish in March of 2009. Offering to help her make money as an escort, he had her perform a sex act in a hotel stairwell “to prove herself.” Then he sexually assaulted her in an east-end motel after photographing her in lingerie he’d bought her at La Vie en Rose.
She told him she didn’t want to have any further contact with him but he sent her messages until she changed her phone number and moved.
He sent Facebook messages to a girl – who repeatedly told him she was 15 – offering her cash to model and have sex with clients at hotel parties in March 2015. He then had sex with her twice in hotel stairwells, including having her “work off” a $100 loan.
Cameron Lyons.
Another 15-year-old girl reported that in October 2015, Lyons contacted her on Facebook and met her to discuss purported modelling jobs. Then he sent her texts trying to get her to work as a prostitute who, he claimed, could make as much as $5,000 a night if she was a virgin. She kept saying she wasn’t willing to have sex for money but Lyons continued to contact her, posing as a would-be client offering cash and cocaine.
In October 2016, investigators released information about the case in a bid to find any other victims. Three young women who knew one another came forward.
The first told police she was 14 when she met Lyons in 2006 when she responded to an ad on Kijiji seeking models. Using two aliases, he had her make web camera videos but they broke off contact when he didn’t make promised payments.
Three years later, she was emailed blackmail threats and learned that pictures of herself and two of her friends had been posted to a Tumblr blog claiming they were prostitutes. The young woman, a University of Ottawa student, managed to get the posts taken down but then started getting emails threatening that the photos would be shared with her father.
At first, she cooperated, but “out of frustration and tired of being extorted, (the young woman) ended the email trail by responding that she no longer cared if her father found out,” according to the agreed statement of facts.
Another victim enumerated was 17 when Lyons offered her modelling jobs and then escorting work in 2013. She flatly refused but Lyons got her cell number and started sending her texts from spoofed phone numbers that showed he knew where she lived and what car she drove. He even texted her mother claiming she was “getting money from men.”
When that didn’t work, he posted the defamatory allegations about her — including photos – online.
Lyons, who is in custody, will face a sentencing hearing in June.
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Instead, they faced exploitation ranging from rape to online harassment.
The 40 year old pleaded guilty Monday to a dozen charges — including sexual assault, criminal harassment, luring and attempting to traffic a person under 18 — involving eight victims over a decade.
Judge Marlyse Dumel heard how Lyons, a former volunteer equipment manager for the University of Ottawa’s football team, used MSN Messenger, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr accounts and aliases including “Joe Howorth” and “Steve Debone” to meet and exploit teenage girls.
The first was in 2006 and the last in 2016 when Lyons contacted a Facebook Messenger account he believed belonged to a 17-year-old girl and offered her as much as $2,000 to meet up with “generous” men, court heard.
But it was really a covert account belonging to city police who arrived to arrest Lyons at the Rideau Centre based on his description that he’d be wearing a maroon-and-grey sweater.
Lyons had asked the fictitious girl to “dress sexy and wear heels” to the meet.
Officers then connected the Facebook accounts to an IP address linked to Lyons’ home address and computers, hard drives and phones found in his room.
A string of victims appeared in an agreed statement of facts read in court Monday. Lyons often bowed his head or covered his face with a hand as he listened.
He found an 18-year-old victim on dating site Plenty of Fish in March of 2009. Offering to help her make money as an escort, he had her perform a sex act in a hotel stairwell “to prove herself.” Then he sexually assaulted her in an east-end motel after photographing her in lingerie he’d bought her at La Vie en Rose.
She told him she didn’t want to have any further contact with him but he sent her messages until she changed her phone number and moved.
He sent Facebook messages to a girl – who repeatedly told him she was 15 – offering her cash to model and have sex with clients at hotel parties in March 2015. He then had sex with her twice in hotel stairwells, including having her “work off” a $100 loan.
Cameron Lyons.
Another 15-year-old girl reported that in October 2015, Lyons contacted her on Facebook and met her to discuss purported modelling jobs. Then he sent her texts trying to get her to work as a prostitute who, he claimed, could make as much as $5,000 a night if she was a virgin. She kept saying she wasn’t willing to have sex for money but Lyons continued to contact her, posing as a would-be client offering cash and cocaine.
In October 2016, investigators released information about the case in a bid to find any other victims. Three young women who knew one another came forward.
The first told police she was 14 when she met Lyons in 2006 when she responded to an ad on Kijiji seeking models. Using two aliases, he had her make web camera videos but they broke off contact when he didn’t make promised payments.
Three years later, she was emailed blackmail threats and learned that pictures of herself and two of her friends had been posted to a Tumblr blog claiming they were prostitutes. The young woman, a University of Ottawa student, managed to get the posts taken down but then started getting emails threatening that the photos would be shared with her father.
At first, she cooperated, but “out of frustration and tired of being extorted, (the young woman) ended the email trail by responding that she no longer cared if her father found out,” according to the agreed statement of facts.
Another victim enumerated was 17 when Lyons offered her modelling jobs and then escorting work in 2013. She flatly refused but Lyons got her cell number and started sending her texts from spoofed phone numbers that showed he knew where she lived and what car she drove. He even texted her mother claiming she was “getting money from men.”
When that didn’t work, he posted the defamatory allegations about her — including photos – online.
Lyons, who is in custody, will face a sentencing hearing in June.
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