UPDATED: 'Psychopathic' voyeur caught with child porn sent to jail

A Kamloops man described by doctors as narcissistic with psychopathic tendencies broke down into tears and hugged his mother today (Jan. 20), moments before being handcuffed and led away by sheriffs to serve a nine-month sentence for voyeurism and possession of child pornography.

Jamie Trevor McDerment, a former radio personality in Merritt and Castlegar, was busted last summer with more than 100 photos and videos of young boys engaged in sex acts — and a handful of pictures he took himself of boys inside the public washroom at Riverside Park.

Mounties began looking into McDerment in May of 2011, after some of the 24-year-old's online activities caught the attention of U.S. law enforcement.

Last August, RCMP in Kamloops obtained a warrant to search the apartment McDerment shared with his wife and young infant, court heard.

They seized 36 items, including computers, flash drives, iPhones and iPods.

While being interrogated by police following the seizure, McDerment admitted to possessing some child porn.

At the time, McDerment's wife told investigators she had no idea her husband was involved with child pornography.

During sentencing submissions, court heard the 100 images and videos found by Mounties on McDerment's hardware were mainly of young boys — between 10 and 18 — masturbating or involved in sex acts with older men.

The images and videos were described by Crown prosecutor Sarah Firestone in vivid detail, which apparently made McDerment uncomfortable.

He could be seen fidgeting in his seat in the gallery of Courtroom 3B at the Kamloops Law Courts, and on more than one occasion during submissions he stood up and called out to his lawyer.

McDerment pleaded guilty to child pornography charges in September.

Before he could be sentenced, however, police began to examine his iPhone, which had been seized in August.

"Police went through the iPhone and among the photographs they found were images of two different young boys using a bathroom," Firestone said.

Mounties checked the time and date stamp on the images and discovered McDerment had taken them on Aug. 1, 2011, between 7:28 p.m. and 8:04 p.m.

The images were also stamped with the GPS co-ordinates of where they were taken, which police traced back to the public bathroom at Riverside Park.

McDerment's wife told police her husband often went on bike rides and would stop to use the washrooms at the park.

Court also heard excerpts from a psychological report prepared after McDerment's guilty plea in September. In it, doctors described him as having "narcissistic qualities" and showing many characteristics of "psychopathic personality disorder."

McDerment admitted to doctors he received sexual gratification looking at child porn and said he had been "heavily involved" with pornography for 18 months prior to his arrest.

In handing down his sentence, Kamloops provincial court Judge Stephen Harrison called McDerment's actions "disturbing" — especially the pictures he took at Riverside Park.

"Possession of child pornography is, in some sense, a passive activity," the judge said.

"They do victimize and re-victimize the children depicted whenever they're accessed.

"But the importance here is that the voyeurism is a different sort of creature, in that this is a real action taken in the real world and not the virtual world, where he intrudes on the privacy of members of the public — and adolescents at that."

Harrison sentenced McDerment to nine months in jail, to be followed by two years of probation with conditions barring him from contacting his ex-wife or daughter, being alone with children, visiting a park or playground, accessing the Internet outside of work, and possessing a camera or any "device which records images," among others.

McDerment will also have to register as a sex offender for 10 years, and must submit a sample of his DNA to a national criminal database.

After hearing his sentence, McDerment began to sob openly. He turned around and tearfully hugged his mother before being led away by courtroom sheriffs.