Protector of the Innocent
Depending on what's meant by innocent. Innocent of the letter of the law as it pertains to the national interest. Splitting hairs, when innocence is anything but reality. In the case of a man living in Ottawa, a judge made the ruling that he did not 'technically' possess pornographic child images. In reality his computer which had been seized as he entered Canada from the United States, did contain a huge amount of pornographic images.In fact, the detection of those images on David McDermid's computer hard drive represented at that time in April 2006 the largest amount of child pornography ever having been sized by the Ottawa police. The man had been working in Boise, Idaho as a computer programmer, and while there he availed himself of the opportunity to download an immense raft of these images. Not his fault, he said, he downloaded indiscriminately, not intending to procure child pornography, merely pornography.
But they were in his possession and obviously suited to his temperament, values and orientation, else why have them? Oh yes, he had asked a friend to delete the images before shipping them to Ottawa from Idaho. His friend had somehow overlooked his instructions, and when Mr. McDermid showed up at the bonded Canada Customs Warehouse to pick up his belongings, he was charged.
The judge, however, ruled "I have a reasonable doubt as to whether the accused ever intended to be in possession of pornography in Canada in view of his efforts to have the images deleted before his belongings were shipped to Canada", indicating that the Crown hadn't been successful in proving that this morally degraded individual's actions broke Canadian law.
He was therefore found not guilty of the importation charge. Canadian law forbids prosecution for possession of child pornography in another country. This sad specimen who enjoys the delectation of pornography and child pornography, despite his attestations to the contrary, was therefore handed a free pass on this occasion.
Despite the unsavoury stench of this man's savagely vulgar predilection for child predation, his lawyer had the effrontery to claim that his client's acquittal demonstrated that the justice system works, even for a totally unsympathetic accused. One can only wonder how that success works in favour of the children being exploited and victimized.
With the further encouragement to people like his client to continue their miserably afflicted lifestyles of attraction to sexual acts imposed on vulnerable and helpless children.
Labels: Justice, Social-Cultural Deviations, Societal Failures
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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