Sentencing decision for offences involving making, transmitting, and possessing child pornography.
The accused, a teacher’s assistant, secretly photographed a vulnerable young student while assisting him in a washroom and distributed the image online while engaging in sexually explicit conversations about abusing children.
Police also discovered a large collection of child pornography and additional images of students taken without their knowledge.
The court emphasized denunciation and deterrence for child exploitation offences, highlighting the breach of trust and vulnerability of the victims as serious aggravating factors.
Despite mitigating factors including a guilty plea, rehabilitation efforts, and psychological treatment, the offender’s moral culpability was found to be high.
A global custodial sentence of four years was imposed, reduced by seven months for strict house arrest bail conditions.
