Man, 23, charged with child sexual abuse offences: Halifax police

A Halifax Regional Police shoulder badge is pictured. (Source: Callum Smith/CTV News Atlantic)

Halifax Regional Police has charged a 23-year-old man with multiple child sexual abuse offences following a search of his home.

The Integrated Internet Child Exploitation Unit received information that a Halifax man may be accessing child sexual abuse material online in January. Officers searched his Tower Road residence on Tuesday morning.

Owen Watson was arrested and appeared in court to face charges of:

• possession of child sexual abuse and exploitation material
• accessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material
• distribution of child sexual abuse and exploitation material
• making sexually explicit material available to a child

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