By Alex McCuaig

Child porn charges

Two child pornography cases adjourned until 2020

Dec 19, 2019 | 5:41 PM

Medicine Hat, AB – The former executive director of a city agency alleged to have accessed and possessed child pornography will be required to present a letter outlining his medical issues relevant to the charges, a city courtroom heard on Thursday.

Wayne Smith, 65, was charged in June in connection with the child pornography allegations.

The court heard that three previous adjournments on the allegations were to obtain the medical letter prior to resolution of the charges.

However, Thursday saw another adjournment for the same reason.

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Judge Gordon Krinke suggested the next steps may be required to be taken if the letter isn’t presented at Smith’s next court appearance in January.

The charges against Smith came three years after his rocky tenure between 2014 and 2016 and subsequent departure from the City Centre Development Agency which included allegations of sexual harassment at the agency-run Monarch Theatre.

Those allegations were found not to be criminal in nature.

Bestiality, child porn, sexual assault

A city man facing allegations of sex crimes involving children and animals had his matters adjourned Thursday until January 2020.

Cody Nicholas Herrell, 26, was charged earlier this year with possessing, accessing and distributing child pornography, sexual assault and bestiality.

Herrell was charged in late September following a seven-month investigation by the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team’s child exploitation unit.