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A family doctor in Sylvan Lake has been charged after allegedly trying to arrange sex with a 5-year-old girl.

Officials with ALERT say the doctor, who has been practising in Sylvan Lake for 30 years, was arrested in Edmonton Thursday.

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Dr. Fred Janke, 62, is facing charges of making arrangements to commit sexual offences against a child, making child pornography, and distribution of child pornography.

“Dating back to October 2017, Janke had allegedly been engaged in sexually explicit conversations with a person he met online,” said ALERT, the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams, Friday in a news release.

“The sexual conversations allegedly progressed to Janke attempting to arrange for sex with the person’s 5-year-old daughter. However, the daughter did not exist and Janke had actually been speaking with a Victoria Police Department undercover operator.

“The Victoria Police Department’s ICE (Internet Child Exploitation) unit had been conducting a proactive, online investigation involving a website that is known to host online chat rooms geared towards child sex. Once the Victoria Police Department ICE investigators determined the suspect was based in Alberta, the information was referred to ALERT’s ICE Unit.”

More details are expected to be released at a press conference in Edmonton Friday afternoon.