Abbotsford Police are warning the public about the release of Abbotsford social media predator Jeffrey Goddard.
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Abbotsford Police have issued yet another warning to the public about Facebook predator Jeffrey Goddard.
Goddard, 23, is coming to live in Abbotsford following his release after six-month's jail for breaching his parole conditions last summer.
Jeffrey Allan Goddard pleaded guilty to two counts of breaching parole conditions in November after creating a fictitious Internet persona to trick two 15-year-old male youths into working in his backyard in July 2012.
Goddard, who's been the subject of three APD public safety warnings, has a criminal history of luring youth for sexual purposes over the Internet.
He was sentenced to 20 months behind bars in June 2011 after pleading guilty to invitation to sexual touching, luring a child under 16 using a computer, impersonating a police officer and two breaches of bail conditions.
He was released on parole in February 2012, at which time the police alerted the public about Goddard's court conditions that included no contact with youth or any access to the Internet.
However, he was arrested again in August 2012 when police discovered he had adopted the alias Ryan Martin Stewart on Facebook in order to make contact with youth online contrary to his parole conditions.
Posing as a landscaper, Goddard "hired" two teenage boys who worked for two weeks fixing fences, laying brick and pruning shrubs.
Although Goddard didn't make sexual advances towards the youth, on several occasions the teens ate lunch in his bedroom, where they saw him use a computer to have sexually explicit conversations with other young men.
Goddard is 175 cm tall (5'9") and weighs 68 kilograms (150 lbs).
He has short brown hair and green eyes and is known to wear glasses.
APD is warning that Goddard has a history of using the telephone, Internet, e-mail, chat rooms, Facebook and other social media to lure young teens between the ages of 12 and 16.
Goodard's conditions prohibit him contact with anyone under the age of 16; attendance at any public park, playground, school, daycare and other locations youth under the age of 18 might be present and possession of any electronic devices that would allow access to the Internet.
APD is asking that anyone who sees Goddard violating his conditions to contact police.
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