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Three youthful offenders were sentenced to penitentiary terms for a brutal group stabbing of a social worker, despite significant mitigating factors including refugee status and collateral immigration consequences.
Three young men were convicted by jury of aggravated assault following an unprovoked group attack on a social worker protecting a vulnerable child at a hotel in London, Ontario on December 29, 2021.
The victim was stabbed five times and suffered multiple injuries.
The court sentenced the offenders to terms of imprisonment, considering their youth, refugee backgrounds, family support systems, and immigration consequences, while emphasizing the serious nature of the group violence and the need for denunciation and deterrence.
Custody Case allowed
Joseph Moss was sentenced for multiple internet child exploitation offences, including making, distributing, and possessing child pornography, and making sexually explicit material available to and luring a 12-year-old victim (R.B.) from the Philippines.
The court found Mr. Moss engaged in systematic grooming of R.B., linking financial support to sexual acts.
Despite a guilty plea, the court found no remorse and a high risk of reoffending due to his entrenched cognitive distortions.
The judge emphasized denunciation and deterrence as primary sentencing objectives, noting the severe harm caused by such offences and the transnational nature of the exploitation.
Mr. Moss received a total sentence of 7 years imprisonment, along with a no-contact order, DNA order, lifetime Sex Offender Information Registration, and a restrictive lifetime s.161 order.
The court also clarified that child exploitation is a serious criminal offence globally, including in the Philippines, contrary to the offender's belief.
