The applicant, who was convicted in 1998 of multiple sexual offences against his adopted daughter, applied to terminate his lifetime Sex Offender Information Registration Act (SOIRA) reporting obligations.
The court considered the serious nature of the interfamilial child sexual abuse and the applicant's ongoing cognitively distorted thinking that shifted blame to the victim.
Finding no objective evidence of a low risk to reoffend, the court concluded that the ongoing registration requirement was not grossly disproportionate to the public interest.
The application was dismissed.
