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Guilty plea on child porn
Former civic bureaucrat Kip Gaudry to be sentenced on possession charge in new year JESSICA KERR
A former Delta bureaucrat pleaded guilty this week to child pornography charges. Kip Gaudry, 59, who was Delta’s director of engineering until he resigned last spring, entered a guilty plea in Surrey Provincial Court Monday to possession of child pornography. His sentencing is scheduled to take place early in the new year. Last March, Delta police searched Gaudry’s office at municipal hall as well as his North Delta home. Computers and other technical equipment were
seized in the raid. He was suspended without pay before resigning a few days later and was charged with possession of child pornography and accessing child pornography about a year later. Gaudry was hired by Delta in 2001 and was named head of the engineering department just a few months before the police raid. Before that he served as director of community planning. He is also facing charges in Manitoba stemming from an inci-
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dent in the 1970s. Last month, Gaudry was arrested and transported to Winnipeg where he was charged with indecent assault involving an underage girl stemming from an incident that occurred in that city dating back to the summer of 1973. He was held in custody for a few days before being released on $3,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in a Winnipeg courtroom again on Dec. 14. He has a history of sexual
offences. In 1995, Gaudry pleaded guilty to nine charges of sexual assault involving teenaged girls while Kip Gaudry district administrator for the community of Houston in west-central B.C. The assaults took place between 1986 and 1994. He was sentenced to three years in prison by a Prince George judge.
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Carol Berner has been released on bail pending her appeal. Madam Justice Carole Huddart announced her decision in B.C. Court of Appeal yesterday morning. Berner is appealing her conviction and sentence in the 2008 crash on 64th Street in East Ladner that killed four-yearold Alexa Middelaer and seriously injured her, aunt Daphne Johanson. The 58-year-old was convicted in July and was sentenced to 30 months in jail earlier this month for impaired driving causing death and bodily harm, and dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm. Defence lawyer David Tarnow previously said, if released on bail, Berner would stay with her sister on Vancouver Island. Court was earlier told Berner would be eligible for parole in 10 months. With files from the Province