Man given conditional discharge in prominent child pornography case in Halifax

HALIFAX – A young man who pleaded guilty in a prominent child pornography case in Halifax has been given a conditional discharge and will be registered in the national DNA databank.

The man pleaded guilty in September to one count of making child pornography involving a teenage girl.

He is now 20 but he cannot be identified because he was 17 when he committed the offence.

At his hearing in September, the Crown read an agreed statement of facts into the court record that said he took a picture of a male youth having sex with the girl in the fall of 2011 while she was vomiting.

The Crown said the girl — who was 15 at the time — was unaware that the picture was being taken and did not give consent to it.

The girl, who died last year at 17 after she was taken off life-support following a suicide attempt, also cannot be identified because of a statutory publication ban.

Her mother gave a victim impact statement earlier today saying the girl’s life began to crumble after the photograph was taken and was distributed.

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