A Nova Scotia mother says her 14-year-old daughter was targeted by online predators through a school-issued laptop and is warning other parents to be vigilant.

The woman noticed the problem in October, when she said she found questionable emails and chats on the Chromebook computer.

“Things that were very sexual in nature, self-harm related; some conversations with individuals who were not within the school system that were happening over her school-issued email address,” said the woman, whom CBC News is not naming to protect her daughter's identity.

Timestamps on the device showed that these messages were accessed both at home and at school.

The mother took the computer to the RCMP, and the Internet Child Exploitation Unit (ICE) is now investigating.

She said she became concerned aft

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