Island man pleads guilty to sharing intimate image with undercover cop posing as child [Video]

Warning: This story contains details some may find disturbing.

A man from Scotchfort, P.E.I., has pleaded guilty to two sexual offences after he sent a photo of his genitals to someone he believed was a 12-year-old girl — but was actually an undercover police officer.

Henry Donald Crabbe, 24, entered the pleas Tuesday morning in provincial court in Charlottetown before Judge Nancy Orr to both child luring and making sexually explicit material available to a child.

Court documents filed when Crabbe was charged in November say the incident happened in June 2024, and more details were revealed in an agreed statement of facts read in court on Tuesday.

Crown prosecutor John Diamond said the messages were sent over the Kik messaging app, where Crabbe had a pattern of sending unsolicited intimate images without knowing the other party or their age.

In the incident for which he was charged, Crabbe was using the app’s random chat function to connect him …