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M.B. Mack

Man Convicted of Child Porn Charges Gets No Jail Time After Judge Described the Graphic Images as a 'Modest Collection'

A Canadian man convicted of child porn offenses avoided jail after a judge cited the small number of files and handed down a conditional sentence instead.

A British Columbia man convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography will serve no jail time after a judge described his illegal collection as "relatively modest" and ordered a conditional sentence instead.

Mark Keenan, 54, pleaded guilty in Kelowna provincial court and was sentenced on May 2 to two years less a day under house arrest, followed by a year of probation, according to CTV News. His case stems from a 2018 RCMP search that uncovered six explicit images involving boys aged nine to 16 on Keenan's devices, after authorities were alerted to his Tumblr activity.

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