Craig Legare, 35 -- who admits he talked dirty with the 12-year-old girl -- was found not guilty of Internet luring yesterday in a landmark decision in Queen's Bench.
"So this guy gets to walk away? You've got to be kidding me," the girl's father told the Sun from his home near Toronto yesterday.
"The only thing that's let me sleep at night for the last two years is that this guy has been in Edmonton. What does this say to all the pedophiles out there?"
Justice John Agrios found while Legare's actions were "despicable and repugnant," the evidence didn't show he planned to follow through on his fantasies.
"To suggest the conduct in this case constitutes luring would be ... throwing the net too wide," said Agrios.
Legare was charged by Edmonton police last year with Internet luring and invitation to sexual touching.
According to agreed facts, the girl was in an Internet MSN chatroom on April 28, 2003 ,under the username "babystar."
Legare, then 32, was in the chatroom under the identity "oceans4surf."
The girl said she was 13 and Legare said he was 17.
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