Criminal Code, section 153(1)
Sexual exploitation of a young person
What the law says
- Maximum
- 14 years
- Mandatory minimum
- 1 year
- Kind of offence
- Sexual
- Prosecuted
- By indictment or summary conviction
MMP of 1 year on indictment (90 days on summary conviction; summary max 2 years less a day). Offender in a position of trust or authority over a 16- or 17-year-old. Section touched by S.C. 2026, c. 19; minimum unchanged.
9 cases with this offence
- June 16, 20264 years federal custody
- February 18, 2025R. v. P.J.H., 2025 BCSC 405
- Below the Crown's ask
8 years and 9 months in prison, concurrent with a 5-year sentence already being served (total incarceration of 9 years) - April 25, 2024R. v. S.O., 2024 NSSC 140
- Below the Crown's ask
4 years imprisonment - December 14, 2023R. v. J.B., 2023 NSSC 427
- Below the Crown's ask
40 months incarceration (global), plus ancillary orders including a s. 161 order - July 20, 20236 years' imprisonment (3 years, 2 years and 1 year consecutive)
- June 12, 20236 years’ imprisonment (concurrent 6 years on the other s. 151 and s. 153 counts, 3 years concurrent on each s. 152 count); DNA, s. 109, 20-year SOIRA and 10-year s. 161 orders
- February 24, 2022Seven and one-half years' imprisonment (sexual interference and sexual exploitation, concurrent), with 3 years concurrent for sexual assault
- July 30, 20219 years in prison (3 years s. 151, 3 years s. 153, 2 years s. 271, 1 year s. 163.1(2), consecutive), less 1,209 days credit
- July 27, 2021R. v. A.P.L., 2021 NSSC 238
- Below the Crown's ask
6 years on sexual interference, 6 months concurrent on sexual exploitation
Judges who sentenced this offence
- The Honourable Justice Patrick J. Murray
- The Honourable Justice Anthony Saunders
- The Honourable Justice Glen G. McDougall
- The Honourable Justice J. Miriam Gropper
- The Honourable Justice Jeffrey R. Hunt
- The Honourable Justice Peter P. Rosinski
- The Honourable Justice Pierre L. Muise
- The Honourable Justice Scott C. Norton