Brandon man pleads guilty to six counts of child luring
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A Brandon man has pleaded guilty to six counts of child luring involving one girl and five boys between the ages of 10 and 14.
Gavaughn Bennett, 26, also pleaded guilty in Brandon’s Court of King’s Bench on Monday to two counts of sexual interference.
In total, Bennett pleaded guilty to 12 offences. The others included possessing child sexual abuse material, inviting sexual touching, transmitting sexually explicit material to someone under 16 and breaching his undertaking.
The Crown stayed Bennett’s 10 remaining charges after he entered his guilty pleas.
The offences took place between 2019 and 2023.
Bennett was arrested in May 2023 on charges related to one of the victims and was released on an undertaking. He was re-arrested in August 2023 after police identified more child victims, along with child sexual abuse material on his devices.
Following Bennett’s arrest in August 2023, Brandon Police Services Sgt. Kirby Sararas told a Manitoba media outlet that in her memory, “I haven’t come across anything similar to this in Brandon.”
Bennett will be sentenced on a later date following the completion of a court-ordered pre-sentence report.
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