Quinte Consolidated Courthouse in Belleville. (Quinte News File Photo: Nicole Kleinsteuber)
The child pornography case against a retired local orthodontist has been put over until September 14 to give counsel time to go over a massive amount of disclosure documents.
Anthony Garry Solomon was not present at the Quinte Consolidated Courthouse on Thursday when defence counsel Peter Girard spoke to the matter on behalf of Solomon’s counsel, Matthew Friedberg of Toronto.
Girard requested the matter be put over until next month to allow time to go over what he called a ‘massive’ disclosure.
On July 12, members of the Belleville and Toronto police services executed a search warrant at a Toronto residence and charged the 69-year-old with one count each of making child pornography, possessing child pornography, voyeurism recording images of a person over the age of 18 years and voyeurism recording a person under the age of 18. The charges stem from a Belleville Police Criminal Investigations Branch investigation that determined for many years Solomon was inappropriately video recording adults and children under the age of 18 without without their consent or knowledge.
Solomon had operated his business on North Front Street for many years.
The matter is currently under a publication ban to protect the identities of the victims and evidence in the case.
On Thursday, Crown Attorney Lee Burgess requested Justice Christopher Peltzer make adjustments to the publication ban after the identity of two teenage complainants was published by a local newspaper with their parents’ consent.
The order now states there shall be no publication of any name of a complainant or anything that would identify the complainant unless they have written consent from the complainant. Burgess advised that the consent be written in a manner that it would please police, the court and the crown if it were to come into question.
