Downloaded child porn to save girl, man tells court

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Downloaded child porn to save girl, man tells court
Harold Carmichael, QMI Agency
First posted: Friday, February 13, 2015 08:21 AM EST | Updated: Friday, February 13, 2015 08:28 AM EST
SUDBURY, Ont. -- A city man found with a large quantity of child pornography in 2011 was viewing the material hoping to rescue a young girl he saw being abused, a Superior Court trial heard Thursday.
Jeff Whitehead, 40, testified he was downloading adult porn at his home using a file-sharing network when he noticed an attachment with one of the videos.
Checking out the end of the attachment, he noticed a young girl in a bathtub.
Whitehead said he immediately turned off the video, but could not stop thinking about it.
"That image would not erase from my mind," he testified. "I was extremely, extremely empathetic. When I see any kind of suffering, it sticks on me for a long time. It wouldn't go out of my mind. I was very emotional."
Reviewing the video later, Whitehead said he noticed the girl was named Vicky. He said he then went searching for other videos online with the girl in it in an attempt to spot or hear something that he could identify so that he could contact the local authorities to help rescue her.
"One of my best qualities is I see things other people don't see," he said. "I wanted to try and see where they were (being filmed). Were they near a resort? Was there a set of curtains only sold at a Wal-Mart in that city? ...
"I understood what the trade-off was. If I got caught doing this, it was 14 days jail. That's what I thought was the penalty."
After numerous downloading sessions in which he would put the videos onto DVDs so he could watch them later and kill off any record of the downloading on his computer, Whitehead said he stopped. He said he was so disgusted after watching a video in the fall of 2011 in which a man was "evil" to another young girl, he decided to end his quest to rescue Vicky.
Whitehead said he was collecting all the Vicky videos on DVDs to destroy them when Greater Sudbury Police Cyber Crime Unit members executed a search warrant at his home.
During a police interview, Whitehead said he told the officer there was a girl in the videos named Vicky and asked if he knew of her.
"He told me that girl was saved by the Cyber Crime Unit," said Whitehead in an emotional voice. "That's one of the reasons the Cyber Crime Unit exists. She's 19-20 now with a boyfriend. It was such a good feeling in a terrible situation. It was a weight off my shoulders."
Whitehead said he realizes now he had no business downloading child pornography.
"That's the biggest mistake I made," he said. "I made the decision breaking the law may get something (a clue) out of it. The law is there for a reason. You are breaking the law. That's the biggest lesson I got out of it."
On Oct. 15, 2013, Whitehead pleaded guilty to accessing child pornography and making child pornography available.
His sentencing was delayed numerous times before resuming Thursday before a new judge, Dan Cornell. As a result, the old pleas were struck and identical new ones entered.
The court heard a member of the Cyber Crime Unit detected a local computer accessing child pornography sites and using a file-sharing program in mid-May, early to mid-June and in mid-August 2011.
The computer was identified as being in a Barrydowne Road home in New Sudbury.
The officer downloaded a video the computer owner had accessed and it was found to be child pornography.
On Nov. 9, 2011, a search warrant was executed at the residence and a laptop, as well as compact discs and DVDs, were seized.
All told, officers determined that 5,785 of the 18,374 images found were child pornography and another 1,452 images involved child nudity.
Of the 896 videos found, 211 involved child pornography. One of the ways the child pornography DVDs were stored was under the file name Raptors Games.
Greater Sudbury forensic psychologist Paul Valliant, who prepared a report for the defence in late 2012, testified Whitehead displayed both narcissistic personality disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.
"He was a naive and rather unsophisticated person," said Valliant. "He tended to have a self-focused set of responses, a concern for self."
Valliant said he spent four hours with Whitehead, while Whitehead spent seven to 10 hours completing various tests in October and November.
He said Whitehead was "at the low end of the range" for re-offending, in the acceptable range for accepting responsibility and "was not really interested in any kind of sexual orientation, any sexual desires."
Whitehead countered he did not have classic obsessive compulsive disorder, but could have a minor subset of the condition. Whitehead said that as far as his sexuality goes, he likes women.
He also disagreed with the narcissistic personality disorder diagnosis.
"I am not narcissistic, not at all," he said."I have a lot of empathy for others. Anybody who knows me knows I have no interest in seeing another suffer."
The sentencing hearing will continue April 1, with Crown cross-examination of Whitehead.
The Crown will be seeking one year jail, two years' probation, and a lifetime registry on the National Sex Offenders Registry.
Defence lawyer Noemi Paquette will be requesting 90 days straight jail.
harold.carmichael@sunmedia.ca
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Id be more inclined to believe his story if he had gone to the authorities right away rather than continuing to download for months and make dvds.
 

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How about a 'special chair' where the 'suspect' is sat in a chair and his pee-pee in a cut-off machine and show some simulated porn of the illegal variety and if he gets an erection the machine automatically whacks it off, . . . like with a sharp knife rather than the other kind.

If illegal porn is coming to a full halt that would seem to open a black market would be the next best thing for the incurable and the porn would be DVD based so you and it stay at your home, together and you dial up whatever kind of adventure you are looking for. A leather couch love seat armchair with small air-ride will have the neighbors never wanting to go home.

NHL would be National Hooker League, sports fans from the world over would buy the DVD because of the quality only available with that media as they would be a 6-pac but then you have I-Max quality graphics and sound that would pick up a pin-dropping and priced accordingly. The trend is shifting to closing down the big malls and shopping on-line and have it come to your door, free if it passes a minimal amount. (a rate that should vary down to almost free if it is a popular item even if you are below the free line)

If you can't eradicate it then containment is the next best thing. As far as I know Alberta has changed some lock up facilities to sex crimes alone, so much about the myth of retribution coming from the general population.

I wonder how much Denmark would charge for a sidewalk bot that you controlled as you 'strolled around it's red light district in HD quality so you could stream it live. Paying would be e-transfer and that is $1 a transaction these days so the bank would be all hot for that to expand it's use.
 
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His Lawyer would show how dedicated the creep was in his 'rescue' attempts, the move dvd' the more effort he was putting into saving the abused children.

Since that media is in use get the porn industry to take advantage of a market that exists and the steps taking place today should make real material impossible to find so they will take the next best thing, actors playing a role for them.

If I'm not mistaken, if there is one DVD there is the possibility that he was mass producing them and that makes him a peddler as well as 'a private collector'. A check would turn up who his usual pals were so he might be better off as being just one link in a longer chain. Time for CSIS to show they deserve all the funding they get.