Latest News

Winnipeg Free Press - ONLINE EDITION

Appeal court reduces Golden's child-porn sentence

By: Gabrielle Giroday

Posted: 11/5/2009 12:28 PM

WINNIPEG - A Court of Appeal decision released this morning reduced the sentence of a local man convicted of making child pornography.

Brock Golden, 28, will now serve 18 months for a charge of Internet luring and making child pornography. His original sentence was 30 months.

Related Items

Articles

Golden was convicted for a April 2005 incident where he took three girls aged 14 and 15 to a Winnipeg hotel room. Golden filmed two of the young women performing sex acts on him.

He was originally sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for Internet luring and 18 months for making child pornography, for a total sentence of 30 months.

Golden’s lawyers launched an appeal, arguing he should serve a sentence of less than two years, to be served conditionally in the community.

However, the decision by three Court of Appeal judges said Golden should serve 18 months behind bars.

"A sentence that permits the accused to live in the community ... is, in my opinion, far lighter punishment, and thus far less a deterrent to others, than a term of imprisonment," said the decision.

"Denunciation is certainly more likely to be realized by a term of imprisonment than by a community sentence."

Golden will receive credit for time spent in custody after he was sentenced, said the decision.

gabrielle.giroday@freepress.mb.ca

(You must be logged in to post your reaction)