The accused pleaded guilty to seven charges involving child pornography: three counts of possession, three counts of making, and one count of distributing child pornography.
The offences involved two separate victims—eight underage members of a hockey team whose nude images were recorded without consent in a locker room, and a youth aged 15-17 with whom the accused engaged in an exploitative online relationship involving the exchange of explicit images and videos.
The court imposed a sentence of 15 months imprisonment, with credit for 10 months pre-trial custody, resulting in a suspended sentence followed by three years probation.
The court balanced the paramount sentencing principles of denunciation and deterrence against mitigating factors including the accused's first-offender status, genuine remorse, insight into his conduct, willingness to undergo treatment, and low risk to reoffend.
