Roy Green - Sun Jan 11 - Scott Newark

An appeal has been launched by an Ontario crown attorney against a stay-at-home sentence, instead of a law-mandated minimum one year prison sentence, for a video editor of an Etobicoke-based (Ontario) child pornography producing organization which distributed its content worldwide.

Why no prison? Because the convicted individual, Brandon Donnelly, might commit suicide in prison, according to three medical professionals. The content of the material Donnelly edited showed 44 naked teenagers and pre-teenage boys engaged in swimming, wrestling, but no overt sexual acts, no violence or participation with adults ruled Justice Ian Nordheimer. So Donnelly received a 21 month conditional sentence. Is the Crown acting properly by appealing the Judge's decision (criminal law does not permit the judge to do what he did)?

Guest:
Scott Newark - Former Alberta Crown Attorney and former head of the Office of Victims of Crime, Ontario.

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An appeal has been launched by an Ontario crown attorney against a stay-at-home sentence, instead of a law-mandated minimum one year prison sentence, for a video editor of an Etobicoke-based (Ontario) child pornography producing organization which distributed its content worldwide.

Why no prison? Because the convicted individual, Brandon Donnelly, might commit suicide in prison, according to three medical professionals. The content of the material Donnelly edited showed 44 naked teenagers and pre-teenage boys engaged in swimming, wrestling, but no overt sexual acts, no violence or participation with adults ruled Justice Ian Nordheimer. So Donnelly received a 21 month conditional sentence. Is the Crown acting properly by appealing the Judge's decision (criminal law does not permit the judge to do what he did)?

Guest:
Scott Newark - Former Alberta Crown Attorney and former head of the Office of Victims of Crime, Ontario.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.