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.
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,”
In all the time I’ve been online (early to mid 90s), I’ve only encountered CSAM once & that was browsing 4chan back between 2005 to 2008 when arseholes did a flood of one of the boards & I went on a major sanitisation of my machine.
Never have I encountered it “in the wild” nor when looking for images such as “sunsets and beaches”.
Jail the guy for a long time and put the judge in a neighbouring cell.
All I will say is maybe the judge has larger career plans like a certain British Labour politician. He could be a dull, sociopath-style individual and not at all a pedophile.
Modest compared to what? The judges collection? Isn’t the assumption that you don’t have a CP collection at all?
6 apparently. And he got 18 months of house arrest.
whomst among us…
That’s the most unconvincing defense I’ve heard in some time. Luckily he had a paedophile judge who was willing to show some solidarity.
The judge copies the collection to their personal laptop for “further research and deliberation at home”
Someone ought to check the judge’s hard drives
this shit keeps happening in B.C. and i don’t know why, Christopher Paul Neil is also walking around, free, somewhere in B.C. as of right now.
Upon his arrest, he gave a voluntary statement to police. When confronted with the Tumblr messages and asked if he were aroused by them, he replied, ‘I mean, in a way, it’s hard not to be.’
Despite pleading guilty to the charges, Keenan maintained that he is not sexually attracted to children, and had only stumbled upon the child pornography [sic] in 2017 while “searching for other images such as sunsets and beaches,” according to the decision.
Keenan said [he] 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 most damning evidence will come from Mr. Keenan’s own mouth,” Tam added. “Upon his arrest, he gave a voluntary statement to police. When confronted with the Tumblr messages and asked if he were aroused by them, he replied, ‘I mean, in a way, it’s hard not to be.’”
In case anyone needs the reminder (NSFW):
