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.
The person pled guilty to distributing it too. The children were as young as 9.
Untill I saw this I was wondering if we were talking 17 year old girls or something. I was trying to have some optimism that the guy thought they were legal or something. But 9. There is no mistaking that. And who even downloads the pictures they find on the web. Total BS.