Reasons for sentence following jury convictions for multiple sexual offences against a child aged 7 to 8, and two assaults by one offender.
The court held that denunciation, deterrence, and separation from society had to predominate in sentencing adult offenders who sexually abused a vulnerable child in a position of trust.
Applying the appellate authorities on child sexual abuse sentencing and the pre-sentence custody credit framework from Summers, the court imposed a 6-year global sentence on one offender with 1.5:1 credit, and a maximum reformatory sentence on the co-offender with 1:1 credit.
Ancillary DNA, weapons, s. 161, and sexual offender registration orders were also made.
