WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A Canadian teenager who admitted to starting his child pornography collection when he was 12 pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years of probation.
The youth, whose name was withheld, entered his plea in Winnipeg, Manitoba, along with an apology, the Winnipeg Free Press reported.
"I know what I've done for a while now is very wrong. I feel very bad, a lot of grief and embarrassment for my family," the teen said in court.
He was first charged in 2008 when he was 15 after online child pornography investigators in Austria traced his computer address, the report said.
Prosecution and defense lawyers had agreed on a sentence of two years of supervised probation and counseling. The teen's name was also placed on the national sex-offender registry and he has restricted Internet and cellphone access rights.
Prosecutor Terry McComb said the teen's case was unusual.
"It's very peculiar that he begins looking at child pornography when he himself is a child," he said.
In earlier testimony, the boy said he didn't perceive the youngsters in his collection of pornography as victims "because most of them are smiling," the report said.
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