Before it shut down, Omegle paired a Manitoba sexual predator with an 11-year-old girl
The closure of Omegle, a video chat service that randomly connected strangers, came soon after the settlement of a U.S. civil suit accusing the platform of pairing an underage girl with a southwestern Manitoba man now convicted of sexually abusing her and other children.
![Before it shut down, Omegle paired a Manitoba sexual predator with an 11-year-old girl](https://i.cbc.ca/1.6552557.1691074803!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/omegle-chat.jpg)
![A man who said he was 27 told a reporter he liked to make friends on Omegle and sometimes masturbated in front of them, even if they were children. A screen capture of a man with a hairy chest on on a website called Omegle. He is seen in a video chat window and beside him is a text chat window.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.6552557.1691074803!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/omegle-chat.jpg)
The closure of Omegle, a video chat service that randomly connected strangers, came soon after the settlement of a U.S. civil suit accusing the platform of pairing an underage girl with a southwestern Manitoba man now convicted of sexually abusing her and other children.