A former high school youth worker was sentenced Monday in P.E.I. Supreme Court to serve 5 ½ years in a federal correctional facility for sexual offences involving girls under the age of 18, drug trafficking and breach of an undertaking.
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Supreme Court Justice Gordon Campbell sentenced Arthur Francis McGuigan to terms of 1.5 years on each of two charges of sexual exploitation.
Those two sentences will run concurrently.
Campbell sentenced the accused to a further 1.5 years in prison, consecutive to all other sentences, for luring a person under 18.
Trafficking in methamphetamine earned McGuigan a further two years behind bars, again consecutive to all other sentences.
He received an additional six months, again consecutive, for breaching an undertaking by having contact with female persons under the age of 18.
The Crown had asked for a total of seven years.
Defence counsel suggested that sentence was too severe for someone with no prior criminal record.
... More on this story later and in the print and e-editions of The Guardian tomorrow.
