The accused was tried on child luring, making sexually explicit material available to a child, and child pornography counts arising from sexualized Craigslist communications with an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old girl and with six other purported underage girls.
Applying the post-Morrison framework, the court held that the ASD evidence gave an air of reality to the reasonable-steps defence, but rejected the accused's evidence on the merits as not credible and not reasonably raising a doubt.
The court found beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused believed the Addy persona and the other relevant correspondents were underage, and that his communications and sexually explicit transmissions were for the purpose of facilitating designated sexual offences and the making of child pornography.
Findings of guilt were entered on all 14 counts, with Kienapple submissions deferred.
