Man Convicted of Child Porn Charges Gets No Jail Time After Judge Described the Graphic …

A Canadian man convicted of child porn offenses avoided jail after a judge cited the small number of files and handed down a conditional sentence instead. A British Columbia man convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography will serve no jail time after a judge described his illegal collection as “relatively modest” and ordered a conditional sentence instead. Mark Keenan, 54, pleaded guilty in Kelowna provincial court and was sentenced on May 2 to two years less a day under house arrest, followed by a year of probation, according to CTV News . His case stems from a 2018 RCMP search that uncovered six explicit images involving boys aged nine to 16 on Keenan’s devices, after authorities were alerted to his Tumblr activity. While the court acknowledged one of the images showed mutual contact between an adult and a child’s genitals, Judge Andrew Tam said the collection’s small size, compared to cases involving hundreds or thousands of files, set it apart. “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. “It stands
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