The offender was sentenced after convictions for sexual assault, sexual interference, and sexual exploitation arising from repeated sexual abuse of his teenage step-daughter over a lengthy period.
The court applied the Supreme Court of Canada's direction that sentences for sexual offences against children should generally move upward and prioritized denunciation and deterrence, while also considering rehabilitation, the offender's mental health issues, and the low assessed risk of reoffending.
The court treated the victim's youth, the familial relationship, the offender's position of trust, and the repeated nature of the abuse as significant aggravating factors.
A four-year global sentence was imposed, reduced by credits for pretrial custody and onerous bail conditions to a sentence of three years and ten months, together with multiple ancillary orders.
