A 43-year-old Edmonton man involved in coaching youth soccer has been charged after a police Internet Child Exploitation investigation.

The ICE unit arrested a man on Jan. 25 with the help of city police west division officers.

“The suspect thought he was meeting a woman and her 11-year-old daughter for sex, but he was really talking online with an ICE investigator,” said Mike Tucker, spokesman with the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams.

ICE investigators had engaged in online conversations with the suspect since December 2016. 

Wesley Darrell Vander Leeuw is charged with making arrangements or agreement to commit sexual offences against a child and making child pornography. 

Investigators encourage anyone with information about this case to contact police.