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Reda Benabed (Québec, Canada) was publicly reported in news coverage as facing criminal charges related to child sexual exploitation in 2016.According to a November 2016 article in La Tribune (Sherbrooke, Quebec):He was a 30-year-old man from Trois-Rivières.
Police (Sûreté du Québec) arrested him after an investigation into online child luring.
Charges authorized against him included:Child luring / computer luring of a person under 16 (leurre informatique sur une personne de moins de 16 ans) between 16–24 October 2016.
Communicating with a police officer while believing the person was under 16.
Possession of child pornography (possession de pornographie juvénile).
Breach of conditions.

He was arrested while going to meet what he believed was a potential underage victim (it was an undercover officer).
A search of his home seized computer equipment.
At his court appearance in Sherbrooke, his lawyer requested a psychiatric evaluation regarding criminal responsibility. He was remanded to the forensic psychiatry department at CHUS for assessment. The case was adjourned.

latribune.ca

This is based on contemporaneous local news reporting of the charges and court proceedings. Public records or later outcomes (conviction, acquittal, sentencing, etc.) are not detailed in the readily available open-source results from that period. No other prominent individuals matching the exact name “Reda Benabed” appear in connection with similar allegations in the search results.Other people with similar names (e.g., athletes or public figures spelled Benabed/Benlebbad/Bennani/etc.) have no such reported links.