Sentencing following guilty pleas to six counts of sexual assault against children, making, possessing and accessing child sexual abuse material, and breaching a SOIRA order, together with a dangerous offender application.
The court applied the dangerous offender framework from Boutilier and, despite psychiatric evidence that treatment might potentially manage risk, found beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused presented a high likelihood of harmful recidivism and intractable sexual dangerousness.
In fixing sentence, the court emphasized denunciation, deterrence, protection of children, breach of trust, multiple young victims, and the continuing harms associated with child sexual abuse material, while rejecting the defence submission that a much shorter penitentiary term coupled with an LTSO would suffice.
A determinate sentence of 18 years' imprisonment was imposed, less enhanced pre-sentence credit, followed by a 10-year long-term supervision order and extensive ancillary orders.
