I'd Be Happy To Pay For His Travel Expenses!!

The same guy I blogged about in July - Who plead guilty already - somehow can't afford to make it to court for his sentencing. Apparently this guy's sentencing has been postponed many times. I am sick and tired of this. The guy is guilty. He said he was guilty!! Sentence him on the same day or within a week. A year later this guy's still out there on bail (he shouldn't have even been allowed out on bail by the way..) and now he phoned his lawyer right before his sentencing date and says "I can't afford to get to Guelph". The other thing that bothers me is the judge! It was said that he was thinking about issuing an arrest warrant for this guy but he changed his mind. Don't change your mind!!! Get this guy in your court room, stop him from wasting your time, the courts time and get him in jail.

The solution is easy: I'll pay for the travel expenses to get this guy into court so we can get him behind bars.

Here is the article from today's Guelph Mercury about this guy. Unbelievable!

GUELPH MERCURY: DECEMBER 19th, 2008

A child porn collector facing certain jail time called to say he couldn't make it to his sentencing date yesterday.
Defence counsel Matthew Stanley said his client, 47-year-old Gordon Beacock, has been living out of the area while free on bail and could not afford a trip to Guelph yesterday, where he was to be sentenced for possessing more than 22,000 child pornography images, videos and stories.
Stanley said Beacock called and told him he simply could not get to court.
Justice David Carr was not impressed that the sentencing, which had already been delayed several times, was off the rails again.
Carr said the key decision was whether to issue an arrest warrant for the man, who pleaded guilty last May.
But the judge was persuaded by Stanley's request to adjourn the case one more time, to Feb. 3 when Carr is next scheduled to be sitting in Guelph court.
"I won't accept this excuse on the next date," Carr said. "He will be here on Feb. 3.
"This won't be allowed again."
Police executed a search warrant at Beacock's basement apartment a stone's throw from a local elementary school in June 2007, after a property appraiser reported to police he had seen child pornography while conducting an appraisal of the home.
A forensic examination of the computer and related devices uncovered more than 19,500 photos, almost 2,000 videos and more than 600 stories determined to be child pornography.
It was at the time one of the largest seizure of such materials in Ontario history.