SASKATOON – Sentencing for a Saskatoon woman convicted of sexually abusing two female children aged two and four has been reserved until May 17. It was scheduled for Monday.
Senior Crown Prosecutor Lana Morelli told SaskToday that the Crown is seeking eight years and 11 months in prison. Defence is seeking seven years.
Morelli said that the children involved are doing better as the matter nears conclusion.
“We won’t know the entirety of the impact on the children until they get older,” said Morelli.
There is a publication ban identifying the woman's name to protect the identity of the children.
In January 2021, Saskatoon Police Service received a report that a child was being sexually assaulted and images of the child were shared on social media. Saskatoon police say the abuse occurred since December 2019.
The Saskatoon Police Child Abuse Unit and the Saskatchewan Integrated Child Exploitation Unit worked together in the investigation. The woman was 25 at the time of her arrest in February 2021.
Police had charged her with sexual assault, sexual interference, committing a sexual offence against a child, trying to commit a sexual offence against a child and bestiality, invitation to sexual touching distributing child pornography, and making child pornography.
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