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No jail time for B.C. man with ‘relatively modest’ child porn collection, judge rules

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  • cm0002@lemmy.worldC [email protected]

    A B.C. man convicted on child pornography charges has been allowed to serve his sentence in the community, in part because of the “relatively modest” size of his collection, a judge has ruled.

    “Although there is no strict mathematical relationship between the size of the collection and the length (or indeed type) of sentence, the size of a collection has often been held to be an aggravating factor,” Tam wrote.

    Despite pleading guilty to the charges, Keenan maintained that he is not sexually attracted to children, and had only stumbled upon the child pornography in 2017 while “searching for other images such as sunsets and beaches,” according to the decision.

    Keenan said was appalled by what he found, and decided to start a Tumblr blog to lure out paedophiles so he could report them to the site’s moderators in a kind of “undercover sting.”

    The judge was not convinced.

    koboldcoterie@pawb.socialK This user is from outside of this forum
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    Despite pleading guilty to the charges, Keenan maintained that he is not sexually attracted to children, and had only stumbled upon the child pornography in 2017 while “searching for other images such as sunsets and beaches,” according to the decision.

    He stumbled upon them in 2017 while searching for other innocuous images and just decided to save them and not delete them for 8 years. Seems like completely normal, well-adjusted behavior.

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    • kbal@fedia.ioK [email protected]

      "Judge not convinced by flimsy excuse" doesn't really strike me as worthy of the Onion.

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      The defendants story makes up for it

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      • cm0002@lemmy.worldC [email protected]

        A B.C. man convicted on child pornography charges has been allowed to serve his sentence in the community, in part because of the “relatively modest” size of his collection, a judge has ruled.

        “Although there is no strict mathematical relationship between the size of the collection and the length (or indeed type) of sentence, the size of a collection has often been held to be an aggravating factor,” Tam wrote.

        Despite pleading guilty to the charges, Keenan maintained that he is not sexually attracted to children, and had only stumbled upon the child pornography in 2017 while “searching for other images such as sunsets and beaches,” according to the decision.

        Keenan said was appalled by what he found, and decided to start a Tumblr blog to lure out paedophiles so he could report them to the site’s moderators in a kind of “undercover sting.”

        The judge was not convinced.

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        “relatively modest” size of his collection, a judge has ruled.

        Compared too?

        It really reads like a pedo giving out a sick burn to another pedo.....your collection isn't even big enough to earn jail time. What is this amateur hour?

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        • koboldcoterie@pawb.socialK [email protected]

          Despite pleading guilty to the charges, Keenan maintained that he is not sexually attracted to children, and had only stumbled upon the child pornography in 2017 while “searching for other images such as sunsets and beaches,” according to the decision.

          He stumbled upon them in 2017 while searching for other innocuous images and just decided to save them and not delete them for 8 years. Seems like completely normal, well-adjusted behavior.

          vaguerant@fedia.ioV This user is from outside of this forum
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          Actually reading the link, he was arrested in 2018. It's not very exculpatory to say "His CSAM collection wasn't eight years old, it was only one year old," but it's true I guess.

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          • vaguerant@fedia.ioV [email protected]

            Actually reading the link, he was arrested in 2018. It's not very exculpatory to say "His CSAM collection wasn't eight years old, it was only one year old," but it's true I guess.

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            This may in fact not be completely outside of the realm of possibility for someone who has no idea how to actually operate his computer, which is most people. The notion that things can be deleted, not to mention when they should be deleted or when they should not be deleted, and the fact that on most modern systems they aren't actually deleted when you hit "delete" and instead go to some manner of purgatory elsewhere on your drive where they're still accessible in full (recycle bin/trash) regularly eludes the majority of computer users.

            The problem is, the defendant's excuse could be explained by him being a moron from multiple avenues, so we'll never know if he's inept (as in can't delete files) or inept (as in so stupid he things everyone else is as stupid as he is in order to believe his dumb excuse).

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              Investigate that judge. Also, dude needs to be kept away from children.

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              A “relatively modest” collection of child porn is zero. This alone should be grounds to seize and search all of the judges devices.

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              • cm0002@lemmy.worldC [email protected]

                A B.C. man convicted on child pornography charges has been allowed to serve his sentence in the community, in part because of the “relatively modest” size of his collection, a judge has ruled.

                “Although there is no strict mathematical relationship between the size of the collection and the length (or indeed type) of sentence, the size of a collection has often been held to be an aggravating factor,” Tam wrote.

                Despite pleading guilty to the charges, Keenan maintained that he is not sexually attracted to children, and had only stumbled upon the child pornography in 2017 while “searching for other images such as sunsets and beaches,” according to the decision.

                Keenan said was appalled by what he found, and decided to start a Tumblr blog to lure out paedophiles so he could report them to the site’s moderators in a kind of “undercover sting.”

                The judge was not convinced.

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                I mean, who hasn't accidentally downloaded CSAM when searching for "sunsets and beaches", right?

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                • N [email protected]

                  I mean, who hasn't accidentally downloaded CSAM when searching for "sunsets and beaches", right?

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                  The person pled guilty to distributing it too. The children were as young as 9.

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                  • cm0002@lemmy.worldC [email protected]

                    A B.C. man convicted on child pornography charges has been allowed to serve his sentence in the community, in part because of the “relatively modest” size of his collection, a judge has ruled.

                    “Although there is no strict mathematical relationship between the size of the collection and the length (or indeed type) of sentence, the size of a collection has often been held to be an aggravating factor,” Tam wrote.

                    Despite pleading guilty to the charges, Keenan maintained that he is not sexually attracted to children, and had only stumbled upon the child pornography in 2017 while “searching for other images such as sunsets and beaches,” according to the decision.

                    Keenan said was appalled by what he found, and decided to start a Tumblr blog to lure out paedophiles so he could report them to the site’s moderators in a kind of “undercover sting.”

                    The judge was not convinced.

                    unabart@sh.itjust.worksU This user is from outside of this forum
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                    Got another “Dear Zachary” brewing up north!

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                      Keep reading, he started a blog with them to "attract and report pedos"

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