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Man facing child pornography charges also accused of drugging his daughter

Accused of drugging his kid

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A Kamloops man arrested last week and accused of drugging his daughter and making child pornography with her is the same man who avoided jail last month after admitting to sharing graphic intimate videos of his ex-wife on social media.

The 37-year-old man cannot be named under a court-ordered publication ban put in place to protect the identity of his ex and his daughter.

He was arrested on Dec. 15 as Kamloops Mounties, acting on a tip from American law enforcement, executed a search warrant at his home.

He is facing five charges, including one allegation that he made child pornography with his own daughter and another that he administered “a stupefying or overpowering drug” to her in order to facilitate a sex offence, according to court documents obtained by Castanet.

The offences are alleged to have taken place between 2014 and last week. He is accused of possessing child pornography between Nov. 30 and Dec. 15, and accused of distributing it on Dec. 6.

On Nov. 2, the man was lucky to avoid jail, receiving a nine-month house arrest sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of publishing an intimate image without consent.

The Crown had been seeking a six-month prison sentence.

In that case, court heard the man’s ex-wife was logged into his Facebook account when she noticed he shared two intimate and graphic videos of her on Facebook messenger.

The ex remembered consenting to one of the videos. She had no recollection of the other one, in which she was incapacitated and unable to consent. She suspected she might have been drugged.

Court heard the man was motivated by hubris and appeared to find the videos funny, according to the messages accompanying them. He sent the videos to other women.

Possession of child pornography is an alleged violation of the man’s conditional sentence order. The house-arrest sentence could be suspended and he could be ordered to spend the remainder behind bars.

The man is seeking bail. His lawyer has requested a technical suitability report for electronic monitoring.

He remains behind bars and is due back in Kamloops provincial court on Jan. 9.



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