HALIFAX — The parents of a teenage girl victimized in a prominent child pornography case in Halifax have delivered victim impact statements at a sentencing hearing for a young man who pleaded guilty.
The mother says the girl's life began to crumble after a photograph of a teen boy having sex with her in the fall of 2011 was distributed.
When the young man pleaded guilty in September to making child pornography, the Crown read an agreed statement of facts into the court record that said he took a picture of a male youth having sex with her while she was vomiting.
The Crown said the girl — who was 15 at the time — was unaware that the picture was being taken and did not give consent to it.
The man, now 20, cannot be identified because he was 17 when he committed the offence.
The girl, who died last year at 17 after she was taken off life-support following a suicide attempt, also cannot be identified because of a statutory publication ban.
