Sentencing for sexual assault, assault, and probation breaches arising from the offender's exploitation of two transient women struggling with addiction.
The court emphasized denunciation and deterrence under the Criminal Code, treated the complainants' vulnerability and the offender's prior sexual and violent record as serious aggravating factors, and rejected a defence request for an 18-month global sentence as demonstrably unfit.
The court nevertheless gave meaningful mitigating weight to streamlined trial admissions, severe and abusive pretrial custody conditions, inmate assaults related to the sexual offence charges, and significant collateral losses.
A global sentence of five years' imprisonment was imposed, less enhanced credit of 25 months for pretrial custody, together with ancillary no-contact, SOIRA, weapons prohibition, and DNA orders.
