A former TV and film worker partly blamed Rogers Communications — one of his previous employers — for his downfall as a judge sentenced him to four years in prison for accessing and sharing child pornography.

“It was Rogers that provided the ISP address to me. It was Rogers that identified me as subscriber,” Oldrich Pelich, 45, told Ontario Superior Court Justice Tamarin Dunnet Tuesday.

“I would like to maintain my innocence,” he said, then blamed the Crown for showing child pornography with “relish and zeal” that “I saw for the first time in this courtroom.”

Pelich said he will appeal his conviction.

Police found pictures and movies in his home of prepubescent girls, some just toddlers, being raped or forced to perform sex acts by adult men.

Dunnet sentenced him to four years in jail, less six months for the house arrest bail conditions he has been under since his arrest four years ago. She barred him from playgrounds and other places children gather for life.

Crown prosecutor Amanda Camara had called for five years. Defence attorney Christopher Biscoe asked for an “upper reformatory” sentence of up to two years less a day, minus credit for his strict bail conditions.

On June 27, Dunnet found Pelich guilty of three counts of possessing, two of making available and one of accessing child pornography.

Each viewing of child pornography perpetuates the abuse of the victims, she said. And the industry keeps demanding new subjects, Dunnet added. “It is the new children that attract the most demand.”

Dunnet noted Pelich, who has no criminal record and is apparently of otherwise good character, was a sophisticated computer user.

When arrested in 2008, the immigrant from Czechoslovakia was working as a “master control operator” for a television network responsible for program acquisition and technical control.

After his arrest, he lost his job and girlfriend.

On June 5, 2008, Toronto police Det. Chris Purchas contacted an ISP address and found it was downloading files with titles suggesting they were child pornography, using the Gnutella network and LimeWire peer-to-peer file sharing program. The officer selected five and downloaded them.

Purchas identified the user’s provider as Rogers and made a request from the company under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act for the identity of the subscriber. Pelich was so identified.

On July 15, the officer downloaded and viewed 14 files from Pelich’s IP address.

On July 16, he executed a search warrant on Pelich’s West Mall home and found him by a computer.

Pelich told the officer, “There’s nothing on the computer. I get rid of it.”

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Police removed a laptop, a computer tower and CDs and DVDs. They found 125 unique child pornography images on the laptop, however 90 were inaccessible, in other words deleted or stored in a temporary file Internet file folder or cache. On the tower there were 1,617 unique child porn images, but only six were accessible.

On the disks were 8,518 images and 92 child porn videos, a collection he had been amassing for seven years, the judge said.

A spokesperson from Rogers Communications could not be reached for comment.