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A provincial court judge imposed the highest child porn-related sentence in Saskatchewan history on a Saskatoon man who paid for, and directed, the live-stream online sexual abuse of children overseas.

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On Tuesday, Philip Michael Chicoine, 28, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for luring children to make child pornography, making his own child porn and sharing it with others, and arranging to commit sexual offences against a child during a six-year period.

Before Tuesday’s decision, the lengthiest child porn sentence in Saskatchewan was eight years.

Chicoine pleaded guilty to 40 charges in April. The offences are “very serious,” Judge Vanessa Monar Enweani noted in her decision — all of them carry mandatory minimum sentences.

Chicoine paid $23,000 to watch impoverished mothers in Romania and the Philippines abuse children — often their own — between 2011 and 2017, court heard during his two-day sentencing hearing in June. He then took screen shots of the live-stream abuse, creating child porn involving approximately 18 victims, some as young as 10 months old.