New charge for child pornographer

Used computer to communicate with minor, police allege

A West Island man on probation for possessing a large collection of child pornography at his home — where his wife ran a private daycare — has been ordered to return to court for alleged use of a computer to communicate with a minor.

A summons was recently filed at the Montreal courthouse ordering Kimberley Byron Moskalewski, 54, of Pierrefonds to appear in court May 30 to face five new charges.

On Sept. 21, Quebec Court Judge Claude Parent sentenced Moskalewski to the equivalent of a 19-month jail term after he pleaded guilty to four charges of possessing, producing and distributing child pornography. He was left with five months of jail time when the sentenced was rendered, and Parent added two years of probation.

The five new charges filed against Moskalewski allege he violated his probation roughly two weeks after the jail term ran out. One count alleges he failed or refused to comply with a part of his probation that forbids him from “using a computer with the goal of communicating with a person under the age of 16.”

The other charges allege Moskalewski used a computer, or a smartphone, on four occasions between Feb. 25 and March 13.

A conviction for violating probation can carry a maximum sentence of 18 months.

Moskalewski was arrested in 2011, after Montreal police learned he had secretly taken photos of a girl as she was undressing and posted the images on social media sites where pedophiles gathered.

Police learned Moskalewski invited other men to lure the girl and that he had amassed a collection of more than 5,000 photos of child pornography, including images of young children in bondage being sexually abused.

The child pornography case did not involve any of the children who attended the daycare, which has since closed.