Monday, April 9, 2001
Man guilty of making child porn at home
Bob Mitchell
Peel/ Halton Bureau Chief
A Brampton man has been convicted of making child pornography, but the case against him has turned out to be anything but the sensational one Peel Region police said it was.
Police described John Brian Wyton, 52, as a “one- man production crew‚” for child pornography after they raided his McMurchy Ave. apartment last September and seized more than 800 videotapes.
But Friday, Wyton was convicted of seven offences, three of which were related to child porn or sex. Defence lawyer Gary Batasar said only one of those tapes involved child porn.
“The case against him was certainly not the biggest porn bust in Peel history”it was far from it.‚” Batasar said outside a Brampton court. “Of those 800 tapes, one actually had anything to do with a criminal offence. The rest were videos he had taped off TV, such as Top Gun and Flashdance and Jaws.‚”
Wyton, a divorced father of two grown men, pleaded guilty Friday to sexually touching a person under the age of 14, indecent assault of a person under 14, making child pornography, assault (on an adult) and three charges of drug possession.
In a statement of facts, Wyton agreed police seized a video from his apartment depicting 15 different tapings of boys under 18 engaged in sexual activity. He also agreed he sexually touched a boy aged 13 to 14 in the early 1970s, and had sexual encounters with a boy starting in the early 1990s. Jailed since his arrest, he will be sentenced May 3.