Wed, 2009-04-22 15:35.
A 67 year old man is facing child porn charges after a raid in St. Catharines Wednesday.
Police say they started investigating earlier this month.
Today, they searched a home on Bellevue Terrace, seizing computer components and other evidence.
Keith Tinkler is facing charges of possessing , distributing and making child pornography.
(http://www.610cktb.com/news/565/916084)
Comment: I just became aware of this today. Keith Tinkler is a colleague at Brock University. He is set to retire from the Department of Earth Sciences this June. He has been teaching at Brock since 1975. I did not know him well, but I often nodded to him as we passed in the halls on the way to lectures.
The part of this extremely disturbing news that preys on my mind is the allegation that he was "making child pornography." I shudder to imagine what that implies. How is it that he could have acted on such utterly evil impulses? Did we all miss some critical signs that behind Keith's mild gnome-like gently smiling exterior lurked Satan himself?
I pray for the healing of all the children that he is alleged to have damaged.
If the charges are proved, I ardently hope that Keith Tinkler will spend the rest of his life in prison in remorse and repentance.
Update June 3, 2009: Keith Tinkler was sentenced to 20 months imprisonment: http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2607237
2 comments:
Professor Burton:
I today became aware of these charges. I just sold my copy of Tinkler's book, A Short History of Geomorphology on Amazon and thought to see if he was still at Brock. I was shocked when my search led to this disturbing news.
I met him once or twice in the '80s when I was studying geomorphology at SUNY Buffalo. Has there been a resolution of the charges?
Paul Hirsch
This is a very disturbing news. Prof. Tinkler is an established geomorphologist and I have read many of his papers during my undergraduate years. Can't believe it.
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