Image via WikipediaChild Pornographers are Evil Hamsters. Enough Said.WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg man has been sentenced to four months in jail after getting caught in an international child pornography investigation.
Mark Perry, 59, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of possession and distribution of several graphic images of nude children as young as five years old.
Perry was arrested in early 2010 after Winnipeg police were alerted by Danish authorities that he had been posting a handful of pictures in an online chat room.
Perry's arrest stunned colleagues at the Winnipeg Sun newspaper, where he has worked as an editor for 20 years. He was eventually fired from his job.
"He was vilified in the media. He suffered shame and degradation," defence lawyer Martin Glazer told court on Tuesday. "He's not looking forward to going to jail, but he knows your honour has no other choice."
Recent legislative changes have resulted in mandatory minimum jail sentences for child pornography offences. Perry has no prior criminal record and has been undergoing counselling and therapy since his arrest, said Glazer.
Crown attorney Terry McComb said Perry has been fully co-operative with police in admitting he liked "younger, or young-looking girls." He even provided investigators with passwords to access encrypted parts of his computer files.
Lawyers did not provide an exact number of images seized by police but said there was more legal adult pornography than child pornography found. All of the downloading occurred on his home computer.
Perry was also given three years of supervised probation Tuesday and his name will be placed on the national sex offender registry.
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