Guilty pleas entered for child porn charge
By Peggy Revell on December 20, 2017.
Medicine Hat News A guilty plea was entered Tuesday by a former youth summer camp director to a child pornography charge. Nolan Davidson, 25, entered the plea to accessing child pornography with sentencing adjourned to March 14. At the request of defence counsel, a pre-sentencing report will be put together. An agreed statement of facts has been signed, submitted to the court, and will be read in on at sentencing. The judge also requested defence and Crown provide by Feb. 28 their positions on sentencing and supporting case law. According to a police announcement on the arrest, investigation began in November 2016 when when the U.S. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children passed on information about a social media user uploading child pornography to the National Child Exploitation Co-ordination Centre in Ottawa, who subsequently referred the case to ALERT’s Internet Child Exploitation unit. Police executed a search warrant on Davidson’s residence in the Crestwood neighbourhood and seized a number of electronic devices. Davidson was arrested and charged with one count each of possession of child pornography and accessing child pornography on Sept. 7. In their announcement to the public, police stated Davidson had identified himself on social media as a former camp director at Eagles Nest Ranch, a youth summer camp located in Cypress Hills Provincial Park. Police investigators said they have no evidence to suggest any offences were committed against any children who attended the camp. 9-8
