Court increases sentence after judge declines to view child porn

The Alberta Court of Appeal has upped the sentence of a child pornographer and child abuser, saying the trial judge made a mistake when refusing to accept a joint sentence submission from the defence and the Crown and declining to view the images made by the accused pedophile. Article content

The accused, who is unnamed and referred to as R.P.A., amassed a collection of child pornography beginning in 2014 and sexually abused his daughter, named only as K.S. in court documents, between 2016 and 2022, and made child pornography featuring her, “mirroring some of the abuse depicted in his acquired collection,” the court ruling says. Article content

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