Ramea man gets 15 months for child luring and pornography charges STEPHENVILLE FRANK GALE The Western Star

Alvin Young of Ramea, left, covers his face with his hands while being led from the courtroom in Stephenville. — Star photo by Frank Gale

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“Abhorrent” and “disgusting” were the words Judge Jacqueline Jenkins used Monday to describe the crimes committed by a 59-year-old man from Ramea in Stephenville Provincial Court.

Alvin Young, a former fisherman who has 10 adult children, a number of grandchildren and a wife of 39 years, stood silent with little reaction as Jenkins sentenced him for child luring and possessing child pornography.

Young received a 15-month sentence for a charge of possessing child pornography and a sentence of 12 months for unlawfully luring a child by means of a computer system. He was credited one and a half months served. His sentences will run concurrently, meaning he has 13 and a half months left to serve and three years of probation upon his release from prison.

He entered guilty pleas June 29. Young was also charged of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal, however that charge was withdrawn by Crown attorney Bill House. The judge told Young his offences are very serious in nature, and said he attempted to minimize the seriousness of his offence.

The court heard he took part in acts that included masturbation, oral sex with a dog and inserting a candle into the vagina of a dog, and had made invitation to a “young girl” of 14 years to take part in the acts as well.

However, the young girl happened to be an adult police officer in the United States who was acting undercover. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Newfoundland and Labrador were contacted by authorities in the United States, advising that one of their officers, posing as a 14-year-old girl online, had been contacted multiple times by a man from this province.

The RCMP Atlantic Region Integrated Technological Crime Unit, with the assistance of the RCMP Major Crime Unit in Gander, was able to identify that the suspect’s residence was in Ramea, an island community off the province’s southwest coast.

A warrant to search Young’s residence was executed and, as a result, he was charged, and property — including computer-related items — was seized from his home.

There were a number of conditions placed on Young after his release from prison, including he keep the peace and be of good behaviour, not have Internet service in his home, have no unsupervised contact with any individual under the age of 16 years and not possess a computer of any kind or any domestic animals.

The judge also gave him a lifetime prohibition from attending public places frequented by people under the age of 16 years, ordered his computer be forfeited and destroyed, ordered him to submit a DNA sample and placed him on the sex offender registry.

She waived a victim fine surcharge as a consideration of his family’s financial situation.