Sentencing for online child luring, sexual interference, possession of child pornography, and breach of a prior prohibition order involving a 15-year-old complainant.
Applying the framework in R. v. Friesen, the court treated the offender's grooming conduct, repeated sexual exploitation of adolescent males, cognate criminal record, serial breaches of court orders, and high assessed risk of reoffending as major aggravating factors.
The guilty plea carried reduced weight because the Crown case was particularly strong, and the court found the offender's remorse hollow in the absence of genuine insight into his pedophilic interests.
An eight-year concurrent penitentiary sentence was imposed, less 49 months' credit for pretrial custody, together with DNA, weapons prohibition, non-communication, s. 161, and lifetime SOIRA orders.
