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Child porn learned on offenders' course

TVNZ, New Zealand: 30 October 2009
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/child-porn-learned-offenders-course-3103259
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A man sentenced to 20 months' jail for possessing child abuse
pornography says he learned how to access the material from someone he
met on a Stop course for sex offenders.

Jeremy Grant Bourne, a 27-year-old baker, was sentenced in
Christchurch District Court on Friday, the Christchurch Court News
website reported.

He had earlier admitted 10 charges of possessing and distributing
child abuse images.

Crown prosecutor Sara Jamieson said the charges arose from 10 of 300
images found on Bourne's computer.

Bourne had been convicted for sex offending in the past. He said he
had been introduced to this type of pornography by someone he had met
at the Stop programme, a treatment programme for men who have sexually
abused or offended.

He had used a file sharing programme which made the images available
to other internet users, Jamieson said.

Bourne suffered from depression and had sought counselling after being
discomforted by the images he saw, his lawyer Matthew Martin said.

"He's really learnt his lesson here. He is well on the way to ensuring
this never happens again."

Judge Michael Crosbie said every image involved the abuse of a real
and actual child.

Putting the images on the web for others to view and share encouraged
"that insidious industry".

A home detention sentence would not be sufficient denunciation or
deterrence, he said. It would also be wrong to return him to the
environment where the offending had occurred, Crosbie said.
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