The accused was tried on charges of accessing, possessing, and distributing child pornography arising from material found on computers in his bedroom and from Kik chats recovered through an iPhone backup.
The court relied on the accused's police admissions, forensic computer evidence, and the contents of the recovered chat sessions to distinguish accessing from possession and to assess the circumstantial case on distribution.
Applying Villaroman and W.(D.), the court held that the only reasonable inference was that the accused was the local user who transmitted offending images in the Kik chats.
The Crown proved all three offences beyond a reasonable doubt.
