Child-porn offender faces prison term
Donald Ashley MacPherson, 66, of Noonan, tells court at sentencing hearing he didn’t realize viewing images of infants, toddlers being sexually abused perpetuated harms
Editor’s note: The defendant in this court report and the journalist covering the case share the same first and last names, but they aren’t related or connected in any way.
A Noonan man busted two years ago for accessing and possessing child pornography had almost 40,000 illegal images in his collection, some of which featured infants and toddlers, court heard Tuesday.
Donald Ashley MacPherson, 66, of Hughes Street, appeared in Fredericton provincial court Tuesday for his sentencing hearing, having previously pleaded guilty to several charges.
He’d admitted late last year to accessing child pornography between Feb.12 and April 16, 2023, and possessing it May 3, 2023, and earlier this year, he pleaded guilty to assaulting two young girls Oct. 1, 2022, and Jan. 1, 2023.
All of those crimes occurred while he was living on Canada Street in Fredericton.