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Tue, 09 Feb 2010 1:22p.m.

Auckland blogger Cameron Slater aka Whale Oil (NZPA)

Auckland blogger Cameron Slater aka Whale Oil (NZPA)

An Auckland blogger who today denied five charges of breaching court name suppression orders has now revealed on a website the name of a prominent Manawatu man last week sentenced to home detention for downloading thousands of pornographic images of children.

Blogger Cameron Slater pleaded not guilty when he reappeared in Auckland District Court this morning and was further remanded until next month.

The charges related to breaching name suppression orders on the internet in November and December last year.

The Manawatu Standard newspaper reported today Slater had posted to his website the name of the man last week granted permanent name suppression when sentenced to four months' home detention on 25 counts of possessing objectionable material and one of distributing pornographic images.

The man's name was also posted to an anti-suppression advocacy website run by Slater.

Slater said he discovered the man's identity after he contacted people in the Manawatu region.

Outside court today he said he expected two further charges to be laid against him.

NZPA

 

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09 Feb 2010 09:37p.m.

Glocks wrote:

Tikane: you were being ironic, right?

09 Feb 2010 06:48p.m.

Tikane wrote:

Shame on you, Cameron Slater. Shame on you! You attention-seeking man! Have you been the victim and felt ashamed? Do you know what it's like to want it all to be private? Do you even know what the word dignity means? Or victim? Oh, you probably think you are a victim, or maybe you think you're a hero. Well you're neither. Shame on you for thinking you know better then the judges, the jurors and the families. Shame on you!

09 Feb 2010 05:06p.m.

Lightseed wrote:

or perhaps JD the judge actually had what the whale didn't have and that was all the information before him, most likely including a report from those who he is getting treatment from. I'm sure you realise what the person has is a known mental illness that can be successfully treated. So lets hope the beached whale hasn't jeopardized that treatment.

09 Feb 2010 04:53p.m.

Sarah wrote:

I'm behind Cameron. In my opinion ANYONE, whether they are 'prominent' or not, found guilty of possessing pornographic material involving children deserve a 'public flogging'. We now live in such a politically correct world that this story has attracted comments such as "we have to regard peoples privacy and their lives" or "respect the law", I was quite shocked at the attitude of Lightseed, Richard & Katrina's response to this news story. Come on people, we need to respect, regard & protect the INNOCENT children, not the GUILTY paedophile. The children are the true victim's, not the sicko's that get off on looking at images of abused children. The like's of the 'prominent Manawatu man', is the reason that these images exist on the internet in the first place. And it's a good thing that Cameron has communicated his name to the masses, we can't rely on the NZ justice system as a crime deterrent. Four months of home detention, what a joke!!! Is this going to deter him from repeating his offense? I doubt it, but maybe public knowledge of his crime will. I rest my case.

09 Feb 2010 04:16p.m.

John wrote:

Ahh, law by mob rule and righteousness. Just what New Zealand needs. I wonder if the Japanese can do us all a favour and harpoon Mr Whale Blubber and just put him out of his misery. Surely his 10 minutes of fame in his lifetime is over.

09 Feb 2010 04:15p.m.

JD wrote:

Good on him; Why this protection of the reputation of some sick individual who did not have just a couple of pictures, but over 300,000 images of child pornography that he had downloaded. I think once people realise the occupation of this offender and where he worked, they will be sickened. Thanks Cameron, these scum-bags do not deserve the protection and anonymity of name suppression, by outing them, it could save some kiwi kid from being abused by these perverts.

09 Feb 2010 03:58p.m.

Natalie wrote:

Ok, so i admit, he is doing something illegal. But I would want to know if I was living next to one of these distussing characters that he is de-facing. They are the ones who are getting away with committing real illegal acts and yet they are allowed to get away with it. The legal system needs to re-look at there laws and only allow name suppression to those who deserve it. Not these disgusting things that are getting away with horrible crimes

09 Feb 2010 02:26p.m.

katrina wrote:

He has no regard for peoples privacy and their lives

09 Feb 2010 02:19p.m.

Richard wrote:

This person denys lots of things ... can he deny being a whale? A picture speaks a thousand words!

09 Feb 2010 01:32p.m.

Lightseed wrote:

Since this man has no respect for the law, the law should remove his computers form him and deny him access to the internet. One has to wonder though if Cameron is doing this out of a guilt he has for actions from his own past. He seems to be a very angry person who has carried out in the past some very hostile, brutal attacks on the internet against people.