Man pleads guilty to making child porn

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The Crown has announced that it may seek a dangerous offender designation for a man who has pleaded guilty to making child porn by video-recording himself sexually assaulting a two-year-old girl.

Cory Allan Bloomer pleaded guilty on Monday to possessing child porn and making child porn.

“I’m guilty, the evidence is there,” Bloomer said during his appearance in Brandon provincial court.

Bloomer, 34, also admitted to breach of probation for having contact with children under 16 years old and for possessing “trigger materials.”

The Brandon Sun is not publishing anything that would identify the girl. However, it can be noted that the crime wasn’t random as Bloomer

and the girl were known to each other.

No facts were read as Bloomer entered his pleas, but documents filed by the Crown in court indicate that Bloomer video-recorded himself sexually assaulting a sleeping two-year-old girl.

The recording was found after police raided Bloomer’s apartment in January 2015 and found hundreds of sexually explicit digital photographs of young, mainly female, children aged four years and up.

Under a previous probation order, Bloomer wasn’t to have contact with anyone under 18 years old. Yet the police investigation showed that he had visited and stayed with a woman who had four young children — including the girl he sexually assaulted.

The girl’s mother told police she had no idea Bloomer had prior convictions that stem from a sexual interest in young girls.

That disturbing history is outlined in materials that Crown attorney Geoff Dayly submitted to the court, and it’s the reason the Crown wants Bloomer designated a dangerous offender.

In May 2004, he was sentenced for mischief, two counts of theft and for uttering threats.

He stole 22 to 23 pairs of children’s underpants. As an employee of a recycling operation, he also stole children’s pictures and a school class list, which gave him access to addresses and phone numbers of kids in the Brandon community.

In addition, he carved an explicit description of what he would like to do to a young girl into her bed frame. He left her a note in which he threatened to perform a sex act on her.

At that time, a psychiatrist described Bloomer as a serious risk to reoffend. The sentencing judge, John Combs, noted that Bloomer would likely be a risk to the community as long as he has a sex drive.

Bloomer got seven months time served and three years probation, which he violated in June 2006 when police found 207 child porn images in his home that featured girls aged three to 12 years.

He also had a list of names of Brandon girls aged three to 13 years, school photographs of three young girls and 19 pairs of soiled girls panties.

As a result, in October 2006 he was sentenced to 17.5 months in jail for child porn possession.

Again he was put on probation but, once released from jail and back in Brandon, he violated that order by hanging around with 17-year-old girls.

Police and the province’s Community Notification Advisory Committee hadn’t issued a public warning about Bloomer’s release from jail.

Bloomer was sentenced to 132 days time served and released with a three-year probation order that banned him from public places where youth may gather, and from being alone with anyone under 18 years old.

Bloomer was also later convicted of failing to register and report his address as required under the sex offender registry act.

On Thursday, at the request of Dayly, Judge Judith Elliott ordered Bloomer to undergo an assessment that will help determine whether he could be found a dangerous offender under the Criminal Code.

If found to be a dangerous offender, Bloomer faces the possibility of imprisonment for an indeterminate period — possibly up to the rest of his life.

Or, the court can sentence him and impose a long-term supervision in the community following release from prison for up to 10 years.

Alternately, the court can simply impose a sentence for Bloomer’s crimes.

After his latest arrest for making and possessing child porn and the probation breaches, Bloomer was accused of possessing child porn for being found in jail with photos of underage girls that had sexually explicit messages written on them.

However, that charge was dropped after Bloomer pleaded guilty to the other charges.

He remains in custody to await sentencing, for which no date has yet been set.

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