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
- February 7, 2025R. v. B-B., 2025 BCSC 232
- Below the Crown's ask
4.5 years in custody - February 6, 2025R. v. P.P.A., 2025 BCSC 159
- Below the Crown's ask
4 years 6 months in custody (3.5 years and 1 year consecutive), less 1,272 days credit, then 2 years probation - November 18, 2024R. v. P.J.H., 2024 BCSC 2177
- Below the Crown's ask
5 years in custody (2 years 4 months and 2 years 8 months consecutive), 3 days credit - October 28, 20245 years in custody
- July 22, 20246 years in custody
- July 5, 20243 years' imprisonment for sexual interference
- June 4, 2024R. v. K.T.S., 2024 BCSC 1325
- No jail for a violent offence
Two years less a day conditional sentence (house arrest), then 36 months probation - March 28, 202448 months on sexual interference (concurrent 90 days each on exposure and uttering threats), less 294 days pre-trial credit: 1,166 days remaining
- March 11, 2024R. v. G.R.D., 2024 BCSC 431
- Below the Crown's ask
Two years in custody - February 16, 20247 years in custody
- February 12, 202410 years' imprisonment in total (3 years and 7 years consecutive)
- January 23, 2024R. v. B.J.L., 2024 NSSC 33
- Below the Crown's ask
4.5 years (54 months) federal custody, concurrent on each of three s. 151 counts, consecutive to any sentence now being served - January 10, 2024R. v. S.S.A., 2024 BCSC 364
- Below the Crown's ask
6 years' imprisonment - January 10, 2024R. v. J.R.B., 2024 BCSC 227
- Below the Crown's ask
Four and a half years' imprisonment on sexual interference, one year concurrent on invitation to sexual touching; sexual assault conditionally stayed - December 20, 2023R. v. J.H.S.S., 2023 NSSC 411
- Below the Crown's ask
7 years 3 months imprisonment: 4.5 years and 2.5 years consecutive for sexual interference, plus 3 months for assault - December 19, 2023R. v. J.S.M., 2023 NSPC 53
- Below the Crown's ask
- On release at the time
4 years plus 1 year plus 6 months consecutive (5 years 6 months), less 1 month remand credit: 5 years 5 months net - November 20, 2023R. v. Khan, 2023 BCSC 2414
- Below the Crown's ask
6 years imprisonment for incest, 4.5 years concurrent for sexual interference - October 4, 2023Two years less a day imprisonment, then 3 years probation
- August 8, 20233 years in custody, less 275 days credit for 183 days pre-sentence custody
- July 20, 20236 years' imprisonment (3 years, 2 years and 1 year consecutive)
- July 19, 2023R. v. S.S.M., 2023 BCSC 1339
- Below the Crown's ask
4 years and 6 months imprisonment (concurrent on 2 counts) - July 7, 2023R. v. W.F., 2023 NSSC 282
- Below the Crown's ask
8 years imprisonment less 1,305 days credit (four years and 156 days remaining) - June 29, 20235 years imprisonment (3 years per count consecutive, reduced to 5 years for totality); DNA, SOIRA 20 years, s. 109 and s. 161 orders
- June 23, 2023R. v. C.R.J., 2023 BCSC 1151
- Below the Crown's ask
Four and a half years imprisonment; DNA order, s. 109 weapons prohibition, 5-year s. 161 order, 20-year SOIRA order - June 21, 2023R. v. K.J.H., 2023 BCSC 1203
- Below the Crown's ask
5 years on each of ss. 151 and 152, concurrent, less 243 days' credit; SOIRA 20 years, s. 109, DNA, s. 161 orders
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