Loading ...CANADA – Supreme Court strikes down mandatory minimum penalty for child luring
The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down a one-year mandatory minimum penalty for adults who use the internet to lure children into sexual activity. It was the latest of several minimum penalties that have fallen to the court’s use of “reasonably foreseeable” offenders – imaginary or hypothetical individuals for which the minimum sentence would shock the public’s conscience.
“There is no incongruity between affirming the severe wrongfulness and harms that often accompany child luring offences and finding the mandatory minimums ascribed to these sentences unconstitutional.”