Toronto teacher convicted of luring teen student spared jail time (because it would be cruel)

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Toronto teacher convicted of luring teen student spared jail time

A judge found the mandatory six-month jail sentence violates the Charter and instead gave the high school teacher two years of house arrest

Toronto high school teacher Colin Ramsay pleaded guilty to luring an underage female student with exchanges of texts and sexual images over a school year that filled more than 2,000 pages.

His goal, the judge found, was to groom her for eventual sexual contact. 

“This is not a case of Mr. Ramsay not getting the memo. He instructed (her) not to tell anyone about their relationship. While he no doubt rationalized, at bottom Mr. Ramsay knew what he was doing was wrong and why it was wrong,” wrote Ontario Court Justice John McInnes in a recent judgment.

 

But McInnes refused to impose the mandatory minimum six-month jail sentence the conviction carries in the Criminal Code; he agreed with Ramsay’s lawyer – as well as decisions by three fellow judges – deciding it violated the Charter.

House arrest over jail for a would-be predator?

The judge was sure a “reasonable, informed and rational person” would agree that was punishment enough. We’re not so sure.

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This is why nobody has faith in the justice system.  The guy is a sex predator. He gets 'house arrest', which is basically no punishment at all.

Wanna bet he spends his time cruising the net for vulnerable women?

Basically the gov't should just start putting the notwithstanding clause in automatically for every law that involves sex crimes or violence.  I have to wonder if the judge would even have given a longer period if he DID have sex with her, or if he'd just say "a reasonable person would think being locked up in their house is punishment enough".

 

Here's some of what she's going through:

While ultimately there wasn’t sexual contact, the judge said, the teen suffered “significant harm.” 

She now needs medication for anxiety and PTSD “just to be able to leave the house and function every day.”

She told the court she lost friends and ultimately switched to an online high school because she’d been “ostracized when everyone found out about what happened, and some people were really judgmental.”

She felt ashamed and embarrassed, as though she “should have seen it coming and should have known better, even though now I know that it wasn’t my fault.”