The sentencing hearing of a Burnaby, B.C., man convicted on more than a dozen charges of sexually exploiting children overseas continues in B.C. Supreme Court on Friday.
Kenneth Klassen tries to hide his face as he arrives at B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver on Friday. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)
CBC News : July 23, 2010: The sentencing hearing of a Burnaby, B.C., man convicted on more than a dozen charges of sexually exploiting children overseas continues in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver on Friday.
Kenneth Klassen, 59, pleaded guilty in May to having sex with 14 girls as young as nine years old in Cambodia and Colombia between 1998 and 2002.
The father of three also pleaded to importing child pornography after he tried to mail himself DVDs bought overseas, some containing bestiality, others showing sex with six-year-olds.
On Thursday, Crown prosecutors asked for a 12-year sentence for Klassen. The defence is expected to present its arguments on Friday.
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Videotapes played in court
During the hearing on Thursday, the prosecutors played videotapes made by Klassen showing him sexually abusing the young girls, sometimes three or four at a time.
Large screens blocked the public gallery from seeing what Crown counsel Brendan McCabe described as graphic scenes of abuse - prepubescent children engaged in everything from oral sex with Klassen and with each other to intercourse.
Those in the public gallery could only hear the sounds, but Klassen sat hunched in a crinkled blazer, clutching his forehead, shutting his eyes as the images aired in court.
Klassen's homemade porn collection, some of which was found in a storage locker he used to hide the material, included clips where he tried to hide his identity and others where his face was plainly in view.
Other videos showed police interviews with the victims, as part of the two-year-long international investigation that was launched in 2004.
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Kenneth Klassen, shown on the left in a sketch from a previous court appearance, has been convicted of 14 sex tourism charges involving girls as young as nine. (CBC)
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