CITATION: R. v. Duguay, 2009 ONCA 23

DATE: 20090112

DOCKET: C49473

COURT OF APPEAL FOR ONTARIO

Moldaver, Borins and Blair JJ.A.

BETWEEN:

Her Majesty The Queen

Respondent

and

Line Duguay

Appellant

Eric D. McCooeye, for the appellant

Gail Glickman, for the respondent

Heard and endorsed: January 8, 2009

On appeal from sentence imposed by Justice Frank R. Caputo of the Superior Court of Justice dated September 12, 2008.

APPEAL BOOK ENDORSEMENT

[1] We are not persuaded that the trial judge erred in rejecting the joint submission and imposing the sentence he did. The offences were serious. They involved the exploitation of young teenage girls and we agree with the Alberta Court of Appeal in R. v. Tang 1997 ABCA 174, [1997] A.J. No. 460 that “capitalizing on the sale of children’s sexual services is no less reprehensible than other forms of serious child abuse”. The sentence imposed by the trial judge gave greater weight to the principles of denunciation and deterrence in a considered and measured fashion.

[2] Accordingly, while leave to appeal is granted, the appeal is dismissed.