SCC’s sentencing guidance mandates tougher punishment for sexual crimes against children

By Cristin Schmitz ( April 2, 2020, 5:47 PM EDT) -- The Supreme Court of Canada has instructed lower courts to be tougher when punishing sexual crimes against children, in landmark reasons for judgment that offer extensive and detailed guidance on principles, considerations and factors that sentencing judges are to take into account (and misconceptions and myths that they are to avoid)....
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