Man gets 5 years for child porn offences

A Lloydminster-area man who was caught sharing a massive child pornography collection has received a five-year prison sentence.

Shane Dale Pattison, 21, was sentenced in Saskatoon Friday after pleading guilty to 53 child porn-related offences.

He had been sharing the images online with more than 400 people, some of whom were actively involved in abusing children, court heard.

Four children were rescued from their abusers as a result of the Pattison investigation.

The case extended to British Columbia and into the United States.