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Traci Steele
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The Crown is seeking a two-year prison sentence for a man who admitted
to sexually abusing several children over a period of years in the
mid-1990s.
The man can't be named because a publication ban prohibits publishing
anything that could identify his victims.
Details of the heart-wrenching case were read into court Monday after
the man, 47, pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual assault and
counselling a person under 14 to sexually touch another person.
The man was the biological father of one victim and acted as a
stepfather to two others. Another victim was a friend of one child.
The facts read in court by Crown attorney Shonagh Pickens include
incidents of sexual intercourse with his daughter, encouraging one child
to sexually touch another and videotapingmany of the incidents.
"He violated his children in the worst kind of way," she said.
Pickens described two separate incidents when the man crawled into bed
with two girls who were in Grade 3 at the time and touched them.
She described another incident where the children sang Disney songs as
they took off their clothes, put on thong underwear and danced for the
man's camera.
Their mother, court heard, sat naked on the couch and watched it unfold.
Some of the man's victims were in court Monday.
Now adults, one woman cried through most of the proceeding.
The Crown is seeking a two-year prison sentence for a man who admitted
to sexually abusing several children over a period of years in the
mid-1990s.
The man can't be named because a publication ban prohibits publishing
anything that could identify his victims.
Details of the heart-wrenching case were read into court Monday after
the man, 47, pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual assault and
counselling a person under 14 to sexually touch another person.
The man was the biological father of one victim and acted as a
stepfather to two others. Another victim was a friend of one child.
The facts read in court by Crown attorney Shonagh Pickens include
incidents of sexual intercourse with his daughter, encouraging one child
to sexually touch another and videotapingmany of the incidents.
"He violated his children in the worst kind of way," she said.
Pickens described two separate incidents when the man crawled into bed
with two girls who were in Grade 3 at the time and touched them.
She described another incident where the children sang Disney songs as
they took off their clothes, put on thong underwear and danced for the
man's camera.
Their mother, court heard, sat naked on the couch and watched it unfold.
Some of the man's victims were in court Monday.
Now adults, one woman cried through most of the proceeding.