India, July 30 -- An innocent man spent 18 months in jail on the charges of child luring and possession of child pornography over an underscore in his Skyrim-inspired username. Brandon Klayme, from Halifax, Canada, who has now been acquitted, was earlier convicted in an investigation that began in Wisconsin in 2018.

Klayme was arrested in 2020 when an investigation led Halifax Regional Police to him. He was accused and later convicted of exchanging intimate images and having conversation of sexual nature with a 12-year-old girl.

The police traced the man's username, leading to Klayme's arrest. However, the username he used was "fus_ro_dah" and the real accused went by "fus__ro_dah" - two underscored after "fus" instead of one.

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