Friday, May 4, 2001
Man who made porn jailed
A Brampton man has been sentenced to 36 months in prison after being convicted of several offences, including the making of child pornography.
John Brian Wyton, 51, has also been ordered to submit a DNA sample to the Canadian data bank and is prohibited from possessing weapons for 10 years. The divorced father of two men will serve a 20- month sentence after being given 16 months credit for time served.
Crown prosecutor Sandra Caponecchia had asked for a lifetime ban from any public place where children might be, such as parks or swimming pools.
But Mr. Justice Bruce Duncan instead granted defence lawyer Gary Batasar”s request to keep his client from the company of anybody under 14 during three years of probation after he”s released from jail.
“Mr. Wyton is relieved this long and arduous and traumatic chapter of his life is over,” Batasar said outside the Brampton courtroom.
When he was arrested last September, Peel Region police described Wyton as a “one- man production crew” of child porn. Officers had raided his McMurchy Ave apartment and seized more than 800 videotapes.
But Wyton was convicted only seven offences, three of which were related to child porn or sex charges, and Batasar previously told the court the only one of those tapes actually involved child porn.
(continued)‚ another boy was approximately 12 when he had his first sexual encounter with Wyton between 1993 and 1996, court heard. Again drugs were involved. He estimated that between the ages of 12 and 15 he had about 20 sexual encounters with Wyton.
Court heard boys in the neighbourhood used to “hang out” at Wyton”s apartment.
A videotape made by Wyton and seized by police when he was arrested last fall showed six or seven different boys under 18 years of age engaged in masturbation and mutual masturbation with Wyton. Some of the boys were watching pornography on television while Wyton videotaped them.
Crown Caponecchia said in seven clips on the tape it was clear the boys did not know why they were being tapes. In another seven it appears the boys did not know.
Two of the boys were later identified by police.
“Both were devastated to learn they had been captured on video,” she said.