Charlottetown man charged with sex offences
Charlottetown Police Services’ major crime unit, in collaboration with Summerside Police Service’s major crime unit, has laid fourteen charges against a Charlottetown man.
On March 2, Summerside police contacted Charlottetown police to request a wellbeing check on three female youths from Summerside, due to concerns that the girls might be involved with an older man in Charlottetown.
The girls were located, and officers found that the female youths had encountered a man known only as “Eric” who had allegedly sexually exploited them.
Throughout the investigation, police successfully identified the suspect using investigative technology techniques. On the morning of Sept. 12, the Charlottetown Police Services major crime unit, with assistance from the Charlottetown police general patrol unit, arrested the man.
Police executed a search warrant at the suspect’s residence seizing electronic devices.
Darrel Edison Worth, 23, has been charged with the following offences: two counts of sexual assault, two counts of sexual interference, two counts of invitation to sexual touching, two counts of transmitting child pornography, two counts of making sexually explicit material available to a child, two counts of making an agreement or an arrangement sexual assault and two counts of luring a child.
The accused appeared in Charlottetown provincial court Sept. 12 and has been remanded in custody.
Police believe there may be other alleged victims. The accused allegedly predominantly used TikTok to contact his victims online, using the display name “Eddie Worth” and the username “@ eshaw30.”
In conversations with his alleged victims, he went by the name “Eric.” This approach allegedly allowed him to engage with his victims under a deceptive identity.