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When police showed up to Mathieu Pahle’s home in 2014 with a warrant and asked him if they’d find child porn on his computer, he said “probably” and let them in.

Pahle, now 36, wasn’t your usual suspect for he came clean right away and showed police around.

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But then again, most child porn criminals aren’t border agents who took police foundations in college.

The case against the former border guard is particular because he took it to trial with hopes the judge would understand that his appetite for child porn started after he was first exposed to it while stationed at a customs post in Cornwall.

“He would not be here, but for him coming across this child pornography at the border in the midst of protecting the community,” Ottawa defence lawyer James Harbic argued.

Regardless, Pahle was found guilty on one count of possession of child porn and sentenced on Jan. 7 to 15 months in jail. The judge noted the depravity and violence in some of the videos, saying the nature of the vile collection — 9,888 images — was a serious aggravating factor.