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An Ottawa civil servant who says he used marijuana and child pornography to build “a morbid detachment” from reality has been sentenced to two years in jail.

Mahlon Inksetter, 51, an information technology specialist at the Canada Revenue Agency, had more than 133,000 images and 3,000 videos on his computer that qualified as child pornography.

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Justice Peter Doody said the collection was large and well-organized, and stored in hundreds of carefully labeled folders, some of which were available for sharing online.

The judge said the material contained images that were at “the extreme end of the spectrum” of child pornography.

“The images and videos showed the most vile and depraved imagery imaginable of children — mostly girls — ranging in age from one to 16 engaged in explicit sexual activity,” Doody wrote in a recently issued sentencing decision.

Crown attorney Kerry McVey had asked for a four-and-a-half year prison sentence in the case, but Doody said there were mitigating factors that had to be taken into account.