Eight years for pair arrested in N.B. child porn investigation

Local Journalism Initiative

July 11, 2024 at 4:01 p.m.·1 min read

Two people arrested in Charlotte County in 2023 as part of a child pornography investigation have been sentenced to eight years each, according to the RCMP.

A 27-year-old woman was sentenced Monday in Saint John provincial court after pleading guilty in May to four charges, including child pornography and sexual interference, according to court documents. A 28-year-old man received the same sentence to the same charges May 13 after previously pleading guilty in December, documents say.

A publication ban covers information that would identity the victim as well as the names of the accused.

In an RCMP press release Wednesday, police said the investigation by the New Brunswick RCMP's Internet Child Exploitation unit started after a tip from the RCMP's National Child Exploitation Crime Centre. On April 4, officers from the unit and the St. George RCMP executed a search warrant at a Charlotte County residence, arrested the pair and seized several electronic devices, according to the release.

Police say the pair were released on promises to appear and were charged in September. The charges date from August 2018 to April 2023 and include making and possessing child pornography, sexual interference with a person under 16 and using telecommunications to arrange sexual interference.

The woman initially pleaded not guilty and was set for trial next January before changing her pleas the same day the man was sentenced, according to documents.

She was also charged on a count of breaching an undertaking not to communicate or be around persons under 16 unsupervised dating to April 7, 2023, three days after her arrest. She has pleaded not guilty and is set for trial in August, documents say.

Andrew Bates, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Telegraph-Journal

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