Prison term sought for security expert caught with child porn
Security expert Daniel James Clayton should go to prison for five to six years for accessing, possessing and distributing child pornography on his laptop computer, Crown prosecutor Jenny Rees argued Wednesday.
“The aggravating factors are that the quantity of material was extremely large, the nature of the material was extremely graphic with young children and babies, and it was over a long period of time,” said Rees.
She also told Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Kristine Eidsvik there was a great extent of distribution and that the distribution was sophisticated with two different ways of doing so. Court heard Clayton, 30, downloaded thousands of images of child pornography on his computer and he participated in dozens of sexually explicit web chats on at least 37 separate days using peer-to-peer and instant messaging programs between December 2009 and April 2010.
