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Former Bayside resident gets 30 days for distributing child porn Jeremy Ashley/Osprey News Network Local News - Friday, April 13, 2007 Updated @ 8:58:49 AM A former resident of a Bayside-area trailer park who had more than 300 child porn movies on his computer will spend the next 30 days in jail. Jacques A. Beaudoin was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to distributing child pornography. Unshaven and appearing disheveled, the 73-year-old Bancroft-area resident sat motionless as Justice Stephen Hunter handed down the jail term, which also included an 18-month probation period and a number of restrictions such as an order to stay away from anyone under the age of 16 and to not have access to a computer equipped to surf the Internet. Initially, Beaudoin was scheduled to appear for a trial in May after he was charged with two counts of possession of child pornography and one count of selling or distributing child pornography after a provincial police investigation last fall. In late October, said Crown attorney Lee Burgess, officers with the Ontario Provincial Police’s child pornography unit were monitoring activity on the Internet when they located a computer using a file-sharing program known as Limewire with at least two sexually explicit movies involving children. The clips contained segments involving both young girls and boys with adults, Burgess noted. An investigation was launched and the computer’s location was determined to be a residence in the Bayside-area trailer park known as Kenron Estates. Officers obtained a search warrant for the home and seized a computer with 315 movies and 46 images containing child pornography. The content, said Burgess, included “males and females as early as one year of age.” Beaudoin was charged a short time later and held in custody for 20 days before he was released on strict conditions. Since his arrest, Beaudoin has moved several times, including to several addresses in Trenton. The last time he moved was to a residence near Lake St. Peter, north of Bancroft. Noting the lack of criminal record and Beaudoin’s age, Justice Hunter agreed to give a three-for-one deal on the time spent in custody. Typically, those convicted of an offence are given a two-for-one deal on any time spent in custody before matters are dealt with. Hunter sentenced Beaudoin to 90 days in jail, which worked out to 30 days after the formula was applied. |