By Silvia Badea ( February 11, 2026, 10:33 AM EST) -- A recent Campbell River, B.C., case in which a 33-year-old Surrey, B.C., man received a five-year penitentiary sentence after pleading guilty to child sexual offences involving a youth he met on Snapchat is a reminder of how digital communications continue to increase in relevancy within the criminal justice system. It also shows how sentencing reasons are increasingly shaped by the realities of technology-facilitated offending, including the scale of access to youth, and the persistence of digital traces even when platforms promote ephemerality....