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A 21-year-old Lloydminster man is facing seven criminal charges related to child pornography.
According to the Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation Unit – which includes Mounties and officers from Saskatoon, Regina – officers searched a home in the border city on Tuesday, seizing and examining electronic devices in the process.
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After an investigation, police charged the 21-year-old man with making child sexual abuse and exploitation material (a charge formerly know as “making child pornography”), accessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material, two counts of making child sexual abuse and exploitation material available to others, and three counts of possession of child sexual abuse and exploitation material.
Police said the man was released on court-imposed conditions ahead of a court date set for Nov. 17 in Lloydminster.
Supreme Court strikes down mandatory minimum sentences for child pornography
Canada’s child pornography laws have been at the centre of a storm of controversy after the Supreme Court struck down the one-year mandatory minimum sentences for possession of child pornography last week.
The decision, which has been widely criticized by politicians and the public, was especially controversial as it hinged on a hypothetical scenario and not the facts of the case before the court.
Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser, however, rejected calls to use the constitution’s notwithstanding clause to overrule the decision, saying the government is searching for policy solutions.
