BC RCMP say two City of Nanaimo employees are being given the credit for interrupting what could have been a potential child luring incident.

This happened at a park in south Nanaimo on June 29th around 1:30 in the afternoon when the two employees were prepping the baseball diamond for a game and caught sight of a man and girl in the bleachers who did not appear to be in a father-daughter relationship. The girl, according to RCMP was between the ages of 11 and 15.

When officers arrived, the girl told them she thought her male friend was 25 years old, that she had met him through a social media platform called V-sing which lets users record themselves while singing. There is also a chat option and a private message function. The girl said she’d been communicating with the man for the past nine months on V-sing and face-timing on her personal cell phone.

The man involved was actually 53 years old and had arrived in Nanaimo from a mid-western state in the U.S.  Both the girl and the man said they were just friends. There was insufficient evidence to detain him but he was told to leave the city and the country immediately. That same evening, Canada Border Security Agency contacted RCMP and confirmed he’d left Canada and gone back to the United States where the investigation is now being pursued by the Department of Homeland Security.