Child porn found on devices from Millington’s home: expert
A computer forensic expert found thousands of images and movies he considered to be child pornography on equipment seized from the home of former Alberta Party leadership candidate Troy Millington.
Ossi Haataja, an expert with the Southern Alberta Integrated Child Exploitation unit, said Wednesday he examined the computer equipment following a Feb. 16, 2016, police raid on Millington’s northwest Calgary home.
Haataja told Crown prosecutor Jenny Rees he found images in three separate identified categories of child pornography.
He said Category 1 involved images focused on the subjects’ genitals, which could involve sexual acts. Category 2 involved full or partial nudity but didn’t focus on the privates of the subjects, and Category 3 involved clothed or mostly clothed children posed in provocative manners.
“I found a total of 5,264 images. Of those, 2,257 were unique that I categorized as Category 1,” Haataja told a six-man, six-woman Court of Queen’s Bench jury.
He also found 1,730 images in Category 2 and 1,004 in Category 3.
MOVIES
On the computers and hard drives he examined, Haataja also found movies he considered to be child pornography.
There were 1,856 Category 1 movies, 145 Category 2 and 96 Category 3, he said.
Millington faces charges of making available child pornography to others and possessing and accessing the illicit materials.
Haataja said 135 of the individuals in the images and movies were children identified by Interpol.
On one of the hard drives, he uncovered movies and images depicting mostly preteen girls between age four and 12, he said.
“The images included toddlers, bondage, bestiality,” the retired member of the Calgary Police Service said.
He defined toddlers as being between one and three years old.
One image he found was of an eight-year-old girl bound in a car he called a “mock abduction” in his report.
“It may have been a real abduction,” he added.
Haataja found files that contained terms commonly used to search for child pornography on the internet.
“I’ve never seen any of those terms in relation to anything else (other than child porn),” he said.
The veteran computer expert said he’s had to view “a lot” of child pornography over the course of his career investigating such cases.
“I know I’ve looked at millions of pictures, tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of movies,” he said.
Millington’s trial continues Thursday.
I found a total of 5,264 images. … The images included toddlers, bondage, bestiality.