Geary man gets two years for child porn
Nathan William MacKenzie, 39, of Geary, had hoped for community-based conditional sentence, but judge rules federal prison term necessary to denounce exploitative offence
Warning: This story includes graphic descriptions of sexual crimes against young children.
An argument that a mandatory-minimum jail term for child-pornography possession is unconstitutional was moot, a judge said Tuesday, ruling a prison term was needed to denounce the crime.
Nathan William MacKenzie, 39, of Colbourne Drive in Geary, appeared before Judge Scott Brittain in Fredericton provincial court Tuesday to hear a decision on sentence.
The offender had previously pleaded guilty to an indictable charge of possession of child pornography, stemming from events on Feb. 25, 2022.
Court heard at a sentencing hearing earlier this year that MacKenzie’s spouse called police on that date after she found child-porn videos on a USB drive she’d retrieved from his desk drawer.