The court sentenced an Aboriginal offender who pleaded guilty to three historic indecent assaults committed against three young female relatives while he was an adult in a position of trust.
Applying the Gladue framework and weighing severe systemic and background factors, including residential school abuse, alongside denunciation and deterrence for child sexual abuse, the court found that a penitentiary sentence was not fit in the circumstances.
A global conditional sentence of two years less one day to be served in the community was imposed with strict house arrest, treatment, abstinence, no-contact, and community service conditions.
The court declined discretionary weapons and child-contact prohibition orders, but issued mandatory DNA and sex offender registry orders.
