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The unnamed predator had 180,000 child sex images, 27,000 videos and 12,000 voyeur videos, some of them about his own child abuse.
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May 24, 2022 • 1 hour ago • 4 minutes reading • 57 comments Photo by photo illustration by Postmedia
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An offer from one of Alberta’s most predatory child pedophiles and prolific child pornographers has been rejected for an even lower prison sentence.
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Although he was sentenced to 15 years in prison despite facing a possible 59-year sentence, he stated that his status as a mestizo was not properly considered by the court.
The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his victims, many of them relatives and children of people close to him, had the largest number of “practical” victims and the second largest collection of images of serious child abuse never. meeting of the Southern Alberta Child Exploitation Unit.
There were 11 identified victims, only two years old.
He was arrested in January 2019 and found guilty of 26 counts: one charge of possession of child pornography, one charge of distributing child pornography, two counts of voyeurism, eleven of child pornography, two of sexual interference, four of invitation to sexual intercourse and five counts of sexual assault.
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He was sentenced in January 2021 to an overall sentence of 18 years, reduced to 15 years after an improved pre-sentence custody credit, followed by a 10-year long-term supervision order.
He had previously been accused of abusing a girl in 2016, but the charge was dropped after he signed a promise not to be with anyone under the age of 18 unless a parent or guardian was present.
His latest set of charges came after an investigation by Queensland police in Brisbane, Australia, investigated the online trade in child abuse images.
When Alberta police raided his home, they found electronic devices containing 180,000 child sex images, 27,000 videos and 12,000 voyeur videos. His collection was well organized and cataloged, according to the court.
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Some of them were videos he made about his own child abuse.
The man was so predatory that he was only 15 minutes alone with one victim. Another was recorded on 40 different occasions over eight months and another 90 times in two days.
The legacy of the Métis man required the court to consider what is known as the Gladue report, in accordance with a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada that sentencing judges must take into account the unique circumstances of Indigenous criminals. , as well as systemic issues such as the impact of residential schools, to address the over-representation of Indigenous people in Canadian prisons.
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His Gladue report said the man was unaware that any family members were attending a residential school. Her aunt said her grandmother had gone to a residential school and the family history included cases of physical and sexual abuse.
His family life was stable and positive, according to the court, but he himself had been sexually abused by the son of a family friend when he was five or six years old.
A psychiatrist stated in his sentence that without proper treatment the risk of recurrence in humans was high to moderate and that he would need conditions and supervision once released to manage this risk. His obsessive-compulsive disorder made the treatment of pedophilia more difficult, according to the court.
The Crown said the man’s crimes alone deserve a 59-year sentence, but given his pre-sentence custody, mitigating factors and the Gladue report, he asked for a 20-year sentence. followed by 10 years of post-release supervision.
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The man’s lawyer asked for a 10-year sentence followed by six to eight years of supervision.
The sentencing judge concluded that the man’s Gladue factors did not compensate for his moral guilt to the point that it would reduce his sentence. The judge said the man victimized children while “he was in a position of trust, with repeated and persistent deplorable sexual acts over a period of years.”
The man appealed his conviction, alleging that the judge did not give adequate weight to the Gladue factors and did not adequately consider the impact of all of his prison sentences and supervision.
In a ruling released last week, the Alberta Court of Appeal dismissed both grounds of appeal.
“Systemic and substantive factors provide the necessary context for the sentencing judge to determine an appropriate sentence. They do not serve as an excuse or justification for the offender’s criminal conduct, and the presence of Gladue factors does not translate into an automatic reduction of the penalty for an Aboriginal offender, “Judge Patricia Rowbotham wrote on behalf of a panel of three judges.
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“The crimes in this case are of the highest level of gravity and the moral guilt of the appellant is extremely high,” the decision says.
“The sentencing judge was obliged to consider the appellant’s unique circumstances as an Aboriginal criminal. He was alive and took these factors into account. He finally determined that they had a minimal impact on the prison sentence.
“This Court should not interfere with the weight assigned to these factors if there is no error in principle, and we see no reviewable error in the manner in which the sentencing judge weighed the Gladue factors.”
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