CANADA
Metro
JESSICA SMITH
METRO OTTAWA
Published: January 04, 2012
The key witness in Raymond Lahey’s sentencing is working on research he believes will show that sexual deviants who consume child pornography are less likely to abuse children now that child porn has gone online.
Dr. John Bradford, Head of the Division of Forensic Psychiatry of the University of Ottawa, has testified as expert in numerous criminal trials and recently testified as a defence witness at former Bishop Raymond Lahey’s sentencing hearing in December.
His conclusion that Lahey was not a risk to children and, in fact, not a pedophile, despite possessing images and videos of children and teens, was a key part of the defence argument for a lesser sentence.
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