RAPIST GETS 14 YEARS, LONG-TERM OFFENDER LABEL
Ms. Page’s client, a serial sex offender who escaped custody and broke into a Toronto librarian’s home, sexually assaulting her at knifepoint, was spared from being declared a dangerous offender.
With over 20 previous convictions for serious sexual offences, the Crown brought an Application to have Ms. Page’s client designated a “Dangerous Offender”. The most severe sentence available under the Criminal Code of Canada, such an offender is sent to the penitentiary for an indefinite period of time. The Judge accepted Ms. Page’s submissions that the lesser sentence of a 10-year “long-term supervision order” would adequately protect the public.
Alana Page’s client had been convicted of numerous serious sexual offences over a 16-year period, including aggravated sexual assault, robbery and forcible confinement.
