POLICE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA 77 After discussing the case with the Crown, police decided not to lay child pornography charges. Police did not identify the suspect arrested at a MacKay Street house on Feb. 16, but sources said Carl Skidmore was the resident taken into custody. Mr. Skidmore was jailed in 1997 on two counts of sexually assaulting boys and was convicted after his release for violating a probation order to stay away from anyone under the age of 18. In 2001, he was convicted of possessing stolen property related to a theft gang made up of young men and boys. While Mr. Skidmore was in custody overnight Feb. 16, his home was ransacked and robbed. Police arrested nine people for the burglary. Four months of undercover investigation and tips that local youngsters were being videotaped performing sexual acts led police to obtain a search warrant for the man’s house. They seized sexually explicit videotapes and some marijuana during the raid. Officers viewed the tapes, only to discover that the boys they could identify were between the ages of 14 and 18, old enough to consent to sexual acts under Canadian law. Police said they interviewed the videotaped boys that they could identify. Some of the boys are also alleged to be involved in "other matters eventually to come before the court," an officer said. Police will lay charges of marijuana trafficking, conspiracy to traffic in marijuana and illegal possession of marijuana. Police will also lay Liquor Control Act and Tobacco Act charges. The suspect will appear in New Glasgow provincial court March 26. Ottawa hopes to pass a bill raising the age of consent relating to sexual activity to 16 from 14. The bill is now before a federal committee. Kid-porn trader spared jail time By DEAN PRITCHARD, SUN MEDIA, http://moncton101.spaces.live.com A Winnipeg man who traded violent and degrading images of child pornography with perverts from around the globe earned himself an 18-month conditional sentence yesterday after a judge ruled he has turned himself around with intensive therapy. Timothy Kozun, 25, was arrested in June 2002 after police in Germany monitored a child porn chat room and found advertisements for pictures that were traced back to a Winnipeg file server. Police in Winnipeg seized three computer systems from Kozun's family home. A forensic analysis of the computers uncovered more than 3,500 images of child pornography. Since his arrest, Kozun has undergone therapy with three doctors, who all reported he has shown genuine remorse for his crimes and poses little risk to re-offend. "Such demonstrable rehabilitation, whether post-sentence or pre-sentence, must be encouraged and recognized," said Judge Fred Sandhu. " ... the lengthy court process to date in combination with the considerable publicity this matter has attracted and the sheer length of the psychological rehabilitation has had an individual deterrent effect." A recent report by Dr. Ivan Rutner described Kozun as bright, but emotionally immature. Rutner suggested Kozun's crime "had little to do with a real interest in pornography," but was an act of rebellion and a challenge to his technical skills. "It would have been more consistent with his personality to be demonstrating in favour of animal rights or against Wal-Mart," he wrote. At an earlier sentencing hearing, court heard Kozun amassed the bulk of the collection in two weeks after advertising on a chat room called "Pre-teen 101." Kozun offered traders one picture for every two they gave. The pictures in Kozun's collection included images depicting the rape and torture of children as young as five. Many images offered for trade were still pictures from films, encouraging traders to collect the entire set "much like baseball cards," said Crown attorney Mick Makar, who had asked for jail time. Trucker porn charges, Ottawa Sun, By JON WILLING, http://moncton101.spaces.live.com Police have charged a 26-year-old Texas man after border guards in Lansdowne discovered typewritten stories involving a juvenile. According to the Canada Border Services Agency, border guards found the stories in a truck during a routine inspection at the Thousand Islands bridge this week. (cont’d...) (...cont’d)
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