{"id":346035,"date":"2025-10-31T17:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/346035\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:20:15","slug":"mandatory-minimum-child-pornography-sentences-unconstitutional-supreme-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/346035\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory minimum child pornography sentences unconstitutional, Supreme Court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The Supreme Court of Canada says the one-year mandatory minimum jail sentences for accessing or possessing child pornography are unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>In a ruling today, the top court says although the sentences contribute to the objectives of denunciation and deterrence, they also remove judges\u2019 discretion to impose sentences other than imprisonment when appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>The decision affirms a ruling of the Quebec Court of Appeal, which said the mandatory minimum sentences violated the Charter guarantee against cruel or unusual punishment.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal decision flowed from the cases of two men who pleaded guilty to offences.<\/p>\n<p>The Crown took its case to the Supreme Court, arguing that accessing and possessing child pornography must be denounced vehemently.<\/p>\n<p>It said the sentences imposed must reflect the reprehensible nature of these offences as well as the harm caused to victims, their families and society.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The Supreme Court of Canada says the one-year mandatory minimum jail sentences for accessing or possessing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":346036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-346035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115469931407791557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}