Criminal Code, section 286.1(2)
Obtaining sexual services for consideration from a person under 18
What the law says
- Maximum
- 14 years
- Mandatory minimum
- 6 months
- Kind of offence
- Sexual
4 cases with this offence
- December 18, 20254 years on each count, concurrent, less 1,275 days remand credit
- December 10, 2025R v Mahar, 2025 NSSC 399
- Below the Crown's ask
4.5 years' imprisonment (27 months on each of two counts, consecutive), less 26 days' remand credit - July 10, 20246 months in custody, then a consecutive 6-month conditional sentence, then 1 year probation
- February 22, 2024R. v. B.C., 2024 NSPC 34
- Below the Crown's ask
- On release at the time
30 months incarceration in total, deemed served by remand credit (993 days at 1.5:1 plus Duncan credit); fines of $1,000 and $2,000 on the adult solicitation counts