BURTON, N.B. – Convicted New Brunswick pedophile Michael Gary Gilbert will spend the next decade of his life behind bars in a federal prison.
Judge Alfred Brien sentenced the 41-year-old today at the Burton Provincial Courthouse to 15 years in prison, but with time served that works out to 10 years and 8 months.
For the family members of the victims, the sentence is not enough.
“There’s no remorse there,” says a man who cannot be identified because of a publication ban. “He’s mad because he got caught.”
“If he got 20 years, that wouldn’t be enough. These kids are scared for life.”
Police arrested Gilbert in January 2009 when they raided his home in Tracyville, N.B., after he was identified in child pornography found on a computer seized in Brazil.
He was charged with 11 counts including sexual assault, sexual interference, sexual exploitation and possessing and producing child pornography.
In all six boys ranging in ages between 16 to 4 years old were his victims.
He had taken about 17.000 sexually explicit images of the young boys, and about 500 videos some of which remain online to this day.
Gilbert pleaded guilty to those charges in February.
Crown Prosecutor Karen Lee Lamrock says the sentence handed Gilbert is the longest sentence ever handed down “for these types of crimes.”
Gilbert will be eligible for parole in about two years, but his name will be placed on a sex offender registry for 20 years after he gets out of prison.