Sentencing of a youthful first offender who pleaded guilty to multiple online exploitation offences involving 12 victims, including luring adolescents for child pornography, transmitting and possessing child pornography, obtaining intimate images by false pretences, publishing intimate images without consent, and mischief to data.
The court held that denunciation and deterrence were the primary sentencing objectives, particularly for offences involving victims under 18, while still giving significant weight to youth, guilty plea, remorse, rehabilitation, family support, and restraint.
Applying the sequential sentencing approach and the totality principle, the court found that a conditional sentence was unavailable and unfit, and reduced an aggregate eight-year structure to a fit global sentence of five years' imprisonment.
Ancillary DNA, SOIRA, non-communication, and s. 161 orders were also imposed.
