A longtime Peterborough volunteer hockey coach was released from custody Tuesday after being sentenced to time served for making, possessing and distributing child pornography.

James Alex Brunton, 65, was arrested in May 2013 on 62 charges and pleaded guilty in January to seven charges.

Police found videos secretly recorded in the showers and changing rooms of a Peterborough hockey arena on Brunton’s computer.

The 20 videos and 20 images, which include underage hockey players in their mid- to late teens, were taken between 2003 and 2004.

In an agreed statement of facts Brunton said that he had not accessed the videos in years and that, other than the recordings, he had no inappropriate contact with any of the hockey players.

In 2009 Brunton also developed a relationship with a 15-year-old boy in Colorado through a “profoundly bizarre and depraved” sexual and cannibal fetish website, wrote Ontario Court Justice Peter Harris in his decision.

Brunton paid the teen $3,500 between 2009 and 2012 to send him more than 80 naked photos and three videos. Those images were forwarded to four other email addresses.

Eventually the teen signed a “ghastly fantasy contract” to come to Canada so Brunton could use him as a sex slave, torture him and cannibalize him after he turned 18.

There is no indication that this fantasy would ever have become a reality, defence lawyer Alison Mackay said outside the courthouse.

Brunton “was troubled, depressed and feeling inadequate and, unfortunately started searching online that led to various things that aren’t illegal,” she said.

Harris sentenced Brunton to 15 months and gave him a credit of 1.5 days for every day of the 10 months he spent in custody prior to the sentencing.

The Crown had sought two years less a day.

Harris told Brunton he “has a lot of trust to rebuild in family and community.”

The “real damage (Brunton has) done to the community is unquantifiable.”

Brunton’s behaviour “takes the form of an addiction, and I don’t think it’s an addiction that is recognized in the same way as alcohol or drug addiction,” said the judge.

While the locker room images appear never to have been distributed, the pictures of the Colorado teen were and could resurface, said Harris.

“The fact is, we don’t really know what harm individuals like Mr. Brunton can cause,” he wrote.

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He added that there was a breach of trust between Brunton and the hockey players from the team he managed.

In sentencing Brunton, Harris said he took into account Brunton’s age, poor health and his apparent remorse. He also noted that the size of the collection of child pornography is “relatively small.”

Brunton has suffered “in terms of pre-trial detention and has felt the weight of the shock and betrayal experienced by family and friends,” Harris added.

Brunton will be on probation for three years, must attend sex offender counseling and is banned from using the Internet without his wife present. He is also banned from public areas with people under 16 unless his wife is with him or from using recording devices in those areas.

For the next 10 years he cannot go to any public areas where there might be people under the age of 16 present, unless his wife or a designated adult is present. He is banned from having any recording devices at those locations.

Harris waived the victim surcharge due to Brunton’s financial situation.

When asked by Harris if he had anything to say, Brunton apologized to his wife and family. He is already registered to begin sexual offender counselling.

Mackay said Brunton also apologizes to the hockey players he videotaped and to the community.

She added that he is looking forward to returning home and recovering his health.

“He is certainly happy that he will be able to see his wife today and go home,” she said.