Cambridge resident caught with ‘staggering’ amount of child pornography jailed four years – TheRecord.com

KITCHENER A Cambridge resident caught with a staggering amount of child pornography hundreds of thousands of images and thousands of videos has been sentenced to four years behind bars.

Charges were read out in court against Trevor Hunter, a.k.a. Dakota Hunter. Hunter is transitioning from male to female. The accused asked in court to be referred to as she/her. The judge, Crown and defence agreed to do so.

Hunter, 37, came to the attention of the police after Google identified online media as child pornography and reported it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Waterloo Regional Police searched Hunters Cambridge residence and seized several electronic devices. They found 381,857 unique images and 7,375 unique videos. Some of the files were being shared with others on the internet.

Hunter pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and making it available.

It goes without saying that the facts of this case, the amounts of materials possessed and/or shared and the types of materials possessed and/or shared are staggering in their content and scope, Justice Craig Parry said in Kitchener court on Thursday.

The judge agreed to a four-year sentence recommended by Crown prosecutor Matthew McLean and defence lawyer Tom Brock.

The court is well aware that any offence involving child pornography is reprehensible, McLean said.

The case law makes it clear that these crimes are not victimless as theyre sometimes categorized. Not only are the children victimized in the creation of such materials, but theyre further victimized when these materials are continually shared with other individuals.

McLean said the sentence must focus on denunciation and deterrence.

The judge invited Hunter to address the court before being sentenced. Hunter declined.

Hunter, who has a prior but unrelated record, was given 759 days credit for presentence custody at the Vanier womens jail, leaving less than two years still to serve.

The judge put Hunter on the sex offender registry for life and ordered Hunter to take counselling while on probation for one year.

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