Sentencing following convictions on an agreed statement of facts for two counts of procuring persons under 18 to provide sexual services for consideration and two counts of making child pornography.
The offender recruited vulnerable underage complainants from a group home, used promises of drugs and money, photographed them for internet advertisements, and planned to place them into prostitution, but police intervened before any prostitution occurred or images were posted.
The court held that denunciation, deterrence, and separation from society predominated in sentencing child sexual exploitation offences, while applying the totality principle to consecutive sentences required by statute.
A global six-year penitentiary sentence was imposed, less three days' pre-trial credit, together with all requested ancillary orders.
