Premier Wab Kinew condemned a Supreme Court ruling that rejected mandatory minimum sentences for possessing child pornography, saying not only should pedophiles serve jail time, “they should bury you under the prison.”

The high court ruled Friday that one-year mandatory minimum jail sentences for accessing or possessing child pornography are unconstitutional.

“This is, like, one of the worst things that anyone can do,” Kinew said of the crime at an unrelated event Monday.

The court said that although jail sentences contribute to the objectives of denunciation and deterrence, they also remove judges’ discretion to impose alternatives to imprisonment when appropriate.

Kinew said convicted offenders who access child sexual abuse images and video should face even harsher punishments than m

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