{"id":56881,"date":"2025-07-15T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=56881"},"modified":"2025-07-15T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T17:30:00","slug":"bible-hill-man-charged-with-child-porn-related-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=56881","title":{"rendered":"Bible Hill man charged with child porn-related offences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56509&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BIBLE HILL: <\/strong>A 57-year-old man from Bible Hill has been charged by the Nova Scotia RCMP&#8217;s Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit for child pornography offences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 10, the ICE Unit, assisted by Colchester County District RCMP and the Nova Scotia RCMP\u2019s Digital Forensic Services, executed a search warrant at an apartment on Village Crt. in Bible Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators were directed to the residence after learning that child pornography was being transmitted by a user accessing the internet in that apartment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56376&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon execution of the search warrant, Randal Degrass, 57, was safely arrested.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has been charged with Possession of Child Pornography and Making Child Pornography Available for Download.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Degrass was released on conditions and is scheduled to appear in Truro Provincial Court on October 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Nova Scotia it is mandatory for citizens to report suspected child pornography; anyone who comes across child pornography material or recordings must report it to the police.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Failure to report could result in penalties similar to those for failure to report child abuse set out in the Child and Family Services Act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be a voice for children who are victims of sexual exploitation by reporting suspected offences to your local police or to Canada&#8217;s national tipline: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybertip.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.cybertip.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File 2025-503034<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56514&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:34px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56526&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIBLE HILL: A 57-year-old man from Bible Hill has been charged by the Nova Scotia RCMP&#8217;s Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit for child pornography offences. On July 10, the ICE Unit, assisted by Colchester County District RCMP and the Nova Scotia RCMP\u2019s Digital Forensic Services, executed a search warrant at an apartment on Village Crt. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[1234,1819,1751,2313,14,396],"class_list":["post-56881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-bible-hill","tag-child-porn","tag-child-pornography","tag-colchester-county-rcmp","tag-rcmp","tag-truro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}