55-year-old Stanley Hammond was arrested after a video of his offending appeared on a cellphone found by the Canadian police when they caught a pedophile. The video included the GPS location of where it was taken – a New Zealand address where Hammond had access. Hammond had taken photographs and videos of his victims so that he could trade for images from other offenders- unimaginable...
Hammond pleaded guilty to 72 charges and was convicted of 23 more at the end of a judge-alone trial. The charges included making, possessing, and distributing objectionable child pornography images, indecent acts on children under 12 and under 16, sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection, and rape.
One of the teenage girls was commended for her courage in reading a statement in court in which she said her sexual abuser deserved to "rot in jail".
The teenager said Stanley Ross Hammond deserved to die in jail and have nobody care for him. She further said she had struggled with what Hammond had done, and continued to have "messed up dreams".
"I feel sorry for him. He must be really messed up if he doesn't know that what he has done was wrong," she said.
The other girl wrote in her statement about the pain of knowing that her images were "all over the Internet, and always will be".
The judge decided against imposing an open-ended preventive detention term, but she jailed him for 22 years with a non-parole term of 10 years after hearing submissions and seeing Hammond's pre-sentence report, and reports by a psychologist and psychiatrist.
The abuse of the two young girls involved rape, anal intercourse, and oral penetration, Justice Dunningham said.
Source: Stuff
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