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In what is believed to be a first in Canadian courts, an Edmonton man has been convicted of importing Japanese magazines containing cartoon child pornography.

Gordon Tshun Chin, 26, pleaded guilty yesterday in provincial court to importing child porn and was given a one-year conditional sentence to be served in the community.

Judge David Tilley told the slight, bespectacled young man he would have put him behind bars, but for the fact the images were drawn and therefore did not involve the actual exploitation of real children.

Tilley was shown an exhibit containing some of the disturbing images and he ordered it forfeited to the Crown.

"Certainly this is the kind of filth which should not be available to the public," said Tilley.

Interestingly, sexually explicit comic books, even those containing child porn, are legally sold in both Japan and the United States.

Crown prosecutor Steven Bilodeau said it is the first such case in Canada he knows of and added that although so-called anime containing child porn is not very prevalent here, Canadians need to know it is illegal.

Bilodeau also said new laws, effective Nov. 1, provide for mandatory jail sentences for importing child porn.

The prosecutor told court that animated child porn has a "noxious" side despite not depicting living victims, because it can dangerously "inflame viewers" and can appear to "normalize" the exploitative sex crime.

Bilodeau said the animated child porn images seized from Chin were very disturbing.

"These images are very disgusting and very violent. There are pictures of babies in diapers being raped," he said.

Court heard city police were alerted after customs agents discovered a mail package addressed to Chin consisting of 15 anime magazines containing child porn on Jan. 31.

On Feb. 10, cops arranged a "controlled delivery" of the package to Chin's south-side home and arrested him.

A search was done and officers found 63 similar magazines.

Court heard police also found hundreds of pages of anime child porn downloaded from the Internet.

Defence lawyer Darcy Depoe said Chin did not know what he was doing was illegal and it was his first offence.

"This 26-year-old man is probably best described as naive," said Depoe.

Tilley placed Chin under house arrest for the first six months of the conditional sentence, fined him $150 and ordered him to perform 100 hours of community service.

Chin will also be on probation for 18 months following the sentence and must take counselling as directed.

He is also forbidden from using a computer and accessing the Internet.

The judge also ordered him to provide a sample of his DNA for the national DNA data bank in Ottawa and placed him on the sex offender registry for five years.


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