Sentencing following jury convictions for sexual assault, sexual touching of a person under 14, and inviting a person under 14 to touch for a sexual purpose.
The offender sexually abused two vulnerable stepchildren over an extended period, including repeated abuse of one victim over approximately ten years, while occupying a position of trust and authority and having a prior similar conviction involving children.
The court treated abuse of children, breach of trust, multiple victims, vulnerability, and prior sexual offending as significant aggravating factors, and relied on appellate guidance emphasizing denunciation and deterrence in prolonged child sexual abuse cases.
A global sentence of six years' imprisonment was imposed, together with lifetime weapons prohibition and SOIRA orders, a DNA order, and a custodial no-contact order.
