Not only did the daughter not know she was being filmed, but neither did her boyfriend or a friend, a 14-year-old girl, who was recorded changing her clothes in the teen's bedroom. More clock radio cameras were found in the bathroom and recreation room, a smoke detector camera was in the basement, the lens aimed toward the couch. Police searched the family's home and found a video surveillance alarm clock in the girl's bedroom. The daughter contacted police and turned over the computer shortly after stumbling on the cache.
The man can't be identified, to protect the girl's identity. Of the 323 videos found on the computer, more than 10% met the legal definition of child porn and were meticulously filed under sexually suggestive names. "I reject his justification," said McKay. The man, in counselling for obsessive-compulsive disorder, pleaded guilty but claimed he'd set up the cameras because he was convinced his daughter was sexually active. There was no grand stash of pirated images collected from the Internet, no accounts found on the computer to attract other porn collectors. Unlike most child-porn cases, this one had "a very different and specific set of facts," defence lawyer Jim Dean told Justice Thomas McKay. Making child porn carries a mandatory minimum sentence of one year.
He was also given four months for possession of $10,600 worth of stolen property taken from his employer, and an extra month for violating court orders. Wednesday, the man ─ who'd worked as a security specialist for a major courier company ─ was sentenced to 23 months in jail, including 18 months for making child pornography. The 47-year-old London, Ont., man had hidden a clock radio surveillance camera in her room. Inside a folder marked her father's "stuff," were images of the 15-year-old girl secretly recorded in her bedroom ─some, showing her in sexual acts including having sex with her boyfriend the same age. ─ She went on the family laptop to do her homework and found a collection of home videos she never knew existed.