Child luring case: Edmonton police lay more charges, seek additional victims [Video]

Edmonton police have laid additional child-luring charges against a man after another girl came forward to accuse him of crimes.

The 15-year-old girl is the fourth to approach police in the case to say Horacio Benitez lured and sexually assaulted her among other offences.

Investigators with the Edmonton Police Service last month started looking into a report of a sexual assault on a girl, finding that the 53-year-old had befriended three girls — two aged 14, one aged 12 — using the social-media platform Snapchat between December and early March.

Police said in a media release on Friday that, in that time period, Benitez offered to buy vapes, marijuana and alcohol for the girls in exchange for nude images, videos and in-person sexual contact.