Man pleads guilty to child porn charges after being caught in police sting

A Kelowna, B.C man has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography and transmitting it on-line.

The plea by 42-year-old Christopher Martin Howard came after he was arrested for missing the start of his B.C. Supreme Court trial earlier this week.

The case relates to incidents in March and August of 2005, when a Toronto policeman posed as a pedophile in on-line dialogues with Howard in Kelowna.

The judge has ordered a pre-sentence report, while Howard stays in custody in Kamloops.

He's expected to be sentenced in February.