Sentencing decision following a guilty plea to internet luring arising from a two-and-a-half-month relationship between an adult police officer and a vulnerable 15-year-old girl.
The court found the communications, gifts, rides, and provision of alcohol amounted to grooming and exploitative conduct aimed at achieving a sexual relationship, despite the absence of sexual touching.
Emphasizing denunciation and deterrence in child exploitation cases, the court treated the offender's status as a police officer and breach of trust as powerful aggravating factors.
A sentence of one year imprisonment followed by three years' probation, together with SOIRA, DNA, and s. 161 orders, was imposed.
