A Chilliwack physiotherapist caught with a large supply of child pornography on his computer will spend two months worth of weekends in jail for his offence. Judge Russell MacKay gave Laurence Wong a 60-day jail sentence in provincial court Friday morning. The sentence is to be served intermittently.

“I sincerely hope this chapter is put behind you,” the judge told the accused.

Wong was arrested May 3, 2007 after police found approximately 26,000 images on his home computer depicting various degrees of pornographic images involving children. The arrest was part of an international investigation based in the Netherlands.

“Needless to say, this material is shocking, repulsive and abhorrent,” MacKay said.

Wong pleaded guilty in December. Prior to sentencing, both a pre-sentence report and psychiatric evaluation were ordered. The physiotherapist has faced restrictions about working around children in his practice. Currently, he is working in the Vancouver area at a grocery store. His professional association is expected to review his status now that the court case has concluded. Judge MacKay also included an order that Wong be placed on a sexual offenders’ registry for a 10-year term but declined to make an order for a sample for an offenders’ DNA registry.

Wong faces restrictions against being around young people under 16 years of age and can only use a computer for work purposes.

He faced a minimum of 14 days in jail and a maximum of 18 months. The judge took the accused’s lack of criminal history, his willingness to admit his mistake, and the fact he had not produced or distributed the material into account when passing sentence but also cited the extreme nature of some of the material Wong possessed.

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