Innocent man spends 18 months in jail over an underscore in username. Here’s what happened

The man who was earlier convicted of luring a child and possession of child pornography was acquitted.

Ever-so-slight variations in a Skyrim-themed username are what got a man from Halifax, Nova Scotia, sent to prison for 18 months to serve time for a heinous crime he did not commit. As the CBC reported, the difference between one underscore and two was enough to convict an innocent man for the crime of having…

One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months. A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based on a false premise. Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under