A 56-year-old former North Vancouver man has been handed a 90-day intermittent jail sentence after pleading guilty to accessing child pornography.
Christopher Paul Johnson was handed the sentence by a judge in North Vancouver provincial court for accessing the child pornography online between June 2009 and May 2012. Johnson was nabbed during an FBI investigation into online child pornography after an undercover officer posed as someone interested in accessing child porn on a peer-to-peer file sharing network.
The online name used by Johnson was tracked to an IP address in North Vancouver and handed over to the RCMP, who obtained information about the subscriber’s address from Shaw Cable.
A police investigation revealed Johnson had downloaded sexual images and videos of prepubescent boys over the file-sharing network.
In addition to the jail sentence, Johnson was placed on 18 months’ probation and will have his name on the sexual offender registry for 20 years.
