Saturday, January 12, 2008

Simon Houston - NAMBLA - Guilty Child Porn

Houston's web postings are a threat to public safety

A Saskatoon man who wrote fantasy stories about sex between men and girls has pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography.

Simon Houston, 55, will be sentenced in April.

He was scheduled to begin a trial before a judge and jury in Saskatoon Wednesday morning. At court, however, he chose to not contest the charge.

For more than two years, Houston has maintained the stories he wrote and posted on the internet were "journalistic" in nature.

He said they were works of his own imagination. He put his writings on the website of the North American Man Girl Love Association.

"I wanted to express my desires for underage girls in a way where it wouldn't be condemned," he told CBC before his court appearance.

Const. Darren Parisien, the investigating officer, said there is nothing intellectual or artistic about Houston's work.

"The ideas that sexual relations between adults and kids should be pursued and the glamour and the pleasure that goes along with those sexual conquests, those were contexts of those stories, at least in my opinion," he said.

Houston's web postings are a threat to public safety, Parisien said outside court.

"He tried to legitimize and put some type of sexual pleasure on the part of the child," he said. Houston was caught through information police received via the website cybertip.ca.

The case is reminiscent of that of Robin Sharpe, the B.C. man who drew national attention as he fought for the right to create sexually explicit stories involving sexual encounters with young boys.

In March 2002, the B.C. Supreme Court found Sharpe not guilty of possessing written child pornography. He was found guilty on two counts of possessing pornographic pictures of children and later sentenced to four months of house arrest.

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