08/23/2025
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA - A convicted Winnipeg child s*x offender who ran a prostitution ring that exploited underage girls will be allowed to return to the community with new release conditions, after his parole suspension was cancelled earlier this month.
Darrell Erwin Ackman, who posted videos of young women and teenage girls to YouTube using the online moniker MrJetzTV, targeted vulnerable girls by gaining their trust and exploiting them in the s*x trade for his financial gain between 2011 and 2012.
Ackman, now 55, was found guilty in 2016 of multiple offences, including s*xual assault, publishing or having possession of child po*******hy and living on the avails of prostitution of a person under 18.
He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, minus time served.
Ackman was released from Stony Mountain Institution, just north of Winnipeg last September, but he was taken back into custody in March after he violated release conditions.
In its latest decision, the parole board voted in favour of releasing him again.
Following his release last year, Ackman was re-arrested for refusing to engage in his treatment plan — a key condition of his release — and sent to a community correctional centre, the decision says.
In February 2025, Ackman had also gone to a public park where children could be present — another breach of his release conditions, according to the decision.
Criminal charges related to that breach were stayed last month, after Ackman said he had gone to the park to film a music video, according to the parole board's decision.
Under his new release conditions, Ackman must take his medication as prescribed and abstain from purchasing, consuming or possessing drugs and alcohol.
His previous release conditions, which are still in effect, require him to follow his treatment plan, stay away from areas where children may be present, and have no contact with children or past victims, among other restrictions.
