Posted on 09/06/2009 11:05:40 AM PDT by Clive
EDMONTON - A St. Albert teacher facing child pornography charges was found dead in the St. Albert RCMP detachment parking lot yesterday morning.
"Our thoughts go with the family of this person," said Cpl. Laurel Kading, with the St. Albert RCMP. "We know this will be a terrible and trying time for them."
About 2:35 a.m., two Mounties returning from patrol found the body of Kerry Glen Avey, 45, lying near his vehicle in the visitor's area of the RCMP detachment parking lot close to the sidewalk, police said.
He appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said, adding a shotgun with a shortened barrel was found near his body. Family have been notified.
Kading said it appeared the man had taken his life just a few minutes before the two officers had returned.
Avey, who was on leave from his teaching post, was expected to appear in court Oct. 7 after he was charged with one count of possession and one count of importation of child pornography.
He had flown into the Edmonton International Airport from Thailand via San Francisco just before 11 p.m. on Aug. 26 when Canada Border Services Agency officers searched his luggage and allegedly discovered a large collection of child pornography CDs and DVDs tucked inside a pouch.
The discs were reportedly purchased in Thailand and each was labelled with a pornographic image, said Sgt. Pat Waldorf of the Northern Alberta Integrated Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit.
St. Albert RCMP's general investigation section and detachment officers, as well as RCMP K Division's forensic identification section, continue to investigate and are assisting the medical examiner's office with the case.
Another child porn case making headlines this week was that of former Winnipeg Blue Bombers president Ross Brown.
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maybe it was a Clinton style suicide?
Quietly?
Maybe they were all down in the basement watching Terrance and Phillip reruns ?
It was a sanctioned hit
Anybody read the end of the article?
Seems to deserve its own headline somewhere.
Did you read the end?
Thailand via San Francisco
What a fantastic example he sets for all the other scum -- the state should provide the loaded shotgun and some plastic sheeting to contain the mess...
No great loss to humanity...
They supposedly found the goods on him at the airport. Which means he is dead to rights guilty unless someone managed to sneak the DVDs into his luggage. And the only reason one would do that is to destroy someone's reputation.
So using Occam's Razor I think the good guys won this one and a useless piece of scum saved the state a costly court case and incarceration money.
But you are right on one point. The stigma of being labeled a child pornographer has become so heinous that once someone is so labeled any chance at a normal life is over.
Locally a 19 Year old kid was dating a 14 year old girl. It was a messy affair due to the girl's parents being divorced. The father succeeded in getting the boy charged with several charges including molestation of a minor. The Boy ended up in jail and is now on the child molester list for the rest of his life.
Yeah he should have known better and all BUT there was no problem with either of the girl's parents until the divorce. The boy and girl had been an item for three years prior.
Sad Really...
"He had flown into the Edmonton International Airport from Thailand via San Francisco just before 11 p.m. on Aug. 26 when Canada Border Services Agency officers searched his luggage and allegedly discovered a large collection of child pornography CDs and DVDs tucked inside a pouch."
He had no idea that it was porn in his baggage.
Judging by his looks, he thought he was buying thai cooking demos & recipes to help him lose weight. /sarc>
And his cat regularly plays with his computer when he's cooking instead of looking.
I knew a guy for over 20 years, work related, but I was friendly with him as well as my brother was, he evidently was buying child porn, and molesting 7 year olds, of course unbenkownst to everyone who knew him.
Then the police caught wind of his doings and he became a suspect, the police simply wanted to talk with him. He instead ran out to the desert and blew his brains out.
He was not committing suicide because he was innocent, as we all found out after.
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