A Winnipeg man convicted of making child pornography and internet luring has been given permission to attend university in Ontario while his appeal is heard.

Brock Golden, son of former city councillor Al Golden, was found guilty in November of luring two teenaged girls to a hotel room using the internet more than three years ago. It was alleged he paid the girls to perform sex acts on him.

Police recovered 200 pictures of the incident from Golden's laptop.

Golden was sentenced to 30 months in jail but has asked the Manitoba Court of Appeal to reduce the sentence. His lawyer Saul Simmonds has argued that the punishment isn't fair, and that the trial judge made errors in arriving at his decision. Simmonds also offered a glowing psychiatric report and said Golden was remorseful.

This week, Manitoba Court of Appeal Justice Martin Freedman granted Golden permission to move to the Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., region to attend school while out on bail pending his appeal.

He will be under many of the same bail conditions as in Manitoba, although there are some changes. He will have to report either to local law enforcement in the area or to the Ontario Provincial Police or the RCMP. And he will be allowed to use a computer at the university but only for educational purposes. While he was in Winnipeg, he was forbidden from going on the internet.

Golden will also have to obey a curfew from 11 p.m. until 6 a.m. and be required to have a cellphone so the police can reach him at any time. He is also not allowed to communicate with children under age 18 or be alone with them.

There has been no word on when the Appeal Court will rule on his application to have his sentence reduced.