Criminal Code, section 151
Sexual interference
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). Section touched by S.C. 2026, c. 19; minimum unchanged. Reported provincial ruling: R. v. Hood, 2018 NSCA 18 (Nova Scotia) on the minimum - unverified.
81 cases with this offence
- September 4, 2026Four and one half years of incarceration
- August 19, 2026R. v. J.A.M., 2026 BCSC 1663
- Below the Crown's ask
6 years in custody - August 7, 2026R. v. R.T., 2026 BCSC 1767
- Below the Crown's ask
2 years in a penitentiary, then 3 years probation - July 21, 2026R v BB, 2026 NSPC 34
- Below the Crown's ask
7 years and 1 month custody before 29 months credit for pre-sentence custody (1,704 days left to serve) - June 19, 2026R. v. C.B., 2026 BCSC 1207
- Below the Crown's ask
7 years total: 5 years and 2 years consecutive - June 15, 2026R. v. R.M.C., 2026 BCSC 1292
- Below the Crown's ask
3 years in custody for sexual interference (sexual assault conditionally stayed) - May 26, 2026R v KJB-R, 2026 NSPC 22
- Below the Crown's ask
6 years imprisonment in a federal penitentiary - May 19, 2026R v. Hatfield, 2026 NSSC 190
- Below the Crown's ask
- On release at the time
9 years (5 years and 4 years consecutive), less 423 days remand credit - May 8, 2026R. v. Z.A., 2026 NSSC 163
- Below the Crown's ask
8 years in a federal penitentiary (10 years for incest reduced to 8 for totality; other counts concurrent) - May 1, 2026R. v. F.J.J., 2026 BCSC 971
- Below the Crown's ask
4 and a half years in custody - April 27, 2026R. v. B.T.R., 2026 BCSC 860
- Below the Crown's ask
4 years in custody - February 20, 20265 years in custody, concurrent on both counts
- January 16, 2026R. v. C.F., 2026 NSPC 14
- Below the Crown's ask
- On release at the time
3 years custody (concurrent 3 months each on resisting arrest and breach of probation), less 501 days' credit; lifetime SOIRA, 10-year s. 161 order - December 18, 20254 years on each count, concurrent, less 1,275 days remand credit
- December 17, 2025R. v. J.A.C., 2025 BCSC 2666
- Below the Crown's ask
4 years in custody, less 53 days' pre-sentence credit - December 16, 2025R. v. K.I.Z., 2025 BCSC 2643
- Below the Crown's ask
5 years and 2 months in custody, less 71 days credit - December 5, 20254.5 years (1,620 days) less 246 days credit
- December 5, 2025R. v. B.H.H., 2025 BCSC 2545
- Below the Crown's ask
4.5 years imprisonment less 2 days' credit; DNA order, s. 109 weapons prohibition, SOIRA 20 years - November 20, 20253 years in custody
- October 6, 2025R. v. S.M.P., 2025 BCSC 1980
- Below the Crown's ask
6 years' imprisonment for sexual interference; sexual assault count conditionally stayed - June 13, 2025R. v. S.P.P., 2025 NSSC 216
- Below the Crown's ask
2 years in custody, then 3 years probation - June 13, 20255 years in custody, less 8 days credit
- June 12, 2025R. v. O.D., 2025 BCSC 2395
- Below the Crown's ask
Two years less a day in custody (concurrent on two counts), less 3 days credit, then 1 year probation - April 10, 2025R. v. J.W.W., 2025 BCSC 849
- Below the Crown's ask
Two and a half years in custody - March 6, 2025R. v. M.A.P., 2025 BCSC 669
- Below the Crown's ask
Two years less a day in custody, less 159 days' credit for pre-sentence custody, then 3 years probation
Judges who sentenced this offence
- The Honourable Justice Elizabeth McDonald
- The Honourable Judge Del W. Atwood
- The Honourable Justice Pierre L. Muise
- The Honourable Justice Scott C. Norton
- The Honourable Justice Briana Hardwick
- The Honourable Judge Elizabeth A. Buckle
- The Honourable Justice John A. Keith
- The Honourable Justice John P. Bodurtha
- The Honourable Justice Julianne K. Lamb
- The Honourable Justice Lindsay M. Lyster
- The Honourable Justice Martha M. Devlin
- The Honourable Justice Palbinder Kaur Shergill
- The Honourable Justice Peter P. Rosinski
- The Honourable Justice Robert W. Jenkins
- The Honourable Justice Simon R. Coval
- The Honourable Justice Warren B. Milman
- The Honourable Justice Wendy A. Baker
- The Honourable Justice Andrew Majawa
- The Honourable Judge Bronwyn Duffy
- The Honourable Justice Bruce Elwood
- The Honourable Justice C. Richard Coughlan
- The Honourable Justice Carla L. Forth
- The Honourable Justice Christa M. Brothers
- The Honourable Judge Christine Driscoll
- The Honourable Justice D. Allan Betton
- The Honourable Justice D. Shane Russell
- The Honourable Justice Darlene Jamieson
- The Honourable Justice Denise M. Boudreau
- The Honourable Justice F. Matthew Kirchner
- The Honourable Justice Francesca V. Marzari