Sentencing for repeated sexual assaults committed by a stepgrandfather against a child between ages 10 and 14 over a four-year period.
The court treated breach of trust, the complainant's age, the frequency and duration of the abuse, the home setting, the intrusiveness of the touching, and severe ongoing harm to the complainant as major aggravating factors, while giving some mitigating weight to the offender's age, medical conditions, and essentially first-offender status.
Applying post-Friesen appellate guidance, the court fixed a sentence just below comparable five-year terms imposed for prolonged intrafamilial child sexual abuse.
The court also granted the requested firearms prohibition, DNA order, and SOIRA order, but declined broader s. 161 restrictions for lack of an evidentiary basis showing a wider risk to children.
