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| University of Toronto professor and former deputy minister of education Benjamin Levin is proceeding directly to trial on seven charges including possession and distribution of child pornography. |
Levin was scheduled for a three-day preliminary hearing beginning Wednesday where the Crown would have presented its evidence supporting the child exploitation charges.
Instead, Levin elected to proceed directly to trial before a provincial court judge, according to a spokesperson for the Ministry of the Attorney General.
Levin was released on $100,000 bail last year. He has ceased all teaching and research duties as a tenured professor with the U of T Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
He was charged in July 2013 after a multi-jurisdictional police investigation spanning New Zealand, England and London, Ont.
A date for the trial is expected to be set Friday.
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