Editor’s note: The following contains graphic details that could be disturbing for some readers.
A Barrie man has been sentenced to one year in jail for making child pornography through written erotic role-play which was based on a woman he was dating and her four-year-old child.
In his written decision last week, Justice Jonathan Bliss called the communication detailed and depraved.
In addition to the jail time, Terry Chapman, 57, will be included on the federal sex offender registry for 20 years, had to submit his DNA to police and is prohibited from possessing weapons for 10 years.
Chapman, who pleaded guilty to making child pornography, had no previous record.
Conversations and a series of texts he had with the woman were revealed by his wife, who suspected he was having an extramarital affair and hid a recording device in his car.
“She heard Mr. Chapman talking to an unknown female about how that woman had sexually abused her daughter and that Mr. Chapman either wanted to be part of it or was asked to be involved. Mr. Chapman’s wife immediately reported her discovery to Barrie Police and provided the recordings to them,” the judge wrote in his sentencing decision in reviewing the facts.
The 12 recordings included 10 conversations that went into graphic detail about sexual acts involving each other and often included reference to the child.
Chapman admitted to sexting the woman but deleted the texts to avoid being caught by his spouse.
“He admitted being involved in sexually explicit conversations with (the woman) where she discussed sexual things she had done to her daughter. He admitted that he knew the conversations were wrong but he went along with what he called ‘the storyline’," the judge wrote in his decision.
The woman was also subsequently charged in another jurisdiction and her cell phone was seized and analyzed.
Barrie police then viewed the WhatsApp chats between the two showing they communicated almost daily during three weeks in May 2019 in which they talked about the child and the sex acts they would perform including referencing sex toys, videos or photos which they sometimes referred to as "teaching" the child.
The judge pointed out there was no allegation that the Barrie man intended to pursue sexual interaction with the child and there was no evidence the child was sexually assaulted by the mother.
But, he added, he had no way to know whether or not the mother was molesting the child, “as he encouraged her to do.”
In his decision, Bliss quoted from one of the discussions filled with “detail and depravity” because just describing them, he wrote, “imbues them with a sterility that they don’t deserve.”
In the conversation the pair graphically discussed sexual detail and muse about the involvement of the child.
