Former police chairman to be sentenced on child luring

The former chairman of a Taber community’s police commission has pleaded guilty to charges of accessing child pornography and child luring. Crown prosecutors withdrew seven charges against Curtis David Paradee, 42, who appeared in Taber provincial court on Tuesday. A judge is expected to sentence Pardee next week and has ordered a pre-sentence report and psychiatric risk assessment.

The prominent 42-year-old, who lives in the town of 7,500 east of Lethbridge, resigned from the police commission after the charges were made public.