CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — A former Charlottetown resident now residing in Alberta was sentenced today in Supreme Court to four years in a federal correctional facility for sexual offences involving an underage female.
Patrick Arthur Timmons, age 39, had entered guilty pleas at an earlier court appearance to charges of invitation to sexual touching and sexual exploitation.
Crown counsel John McMillan had called for a sentence in the range of four to six years.
Defence counsel Mitchell MacLeod had proposed a sentence of two years less a day, which would have allowed the accused to serve his time in a provincial correctional facility.
In passing sentence Supreme Court Justice Gordon Campbell said Timmons' conduct was reprehensible and called for serious denunciation.
While the rehabilitation of the accused is important it cannot be the primary consideration in this case, he indicated.
Campbell said the sentence in this case must express the community's revulsion at Timmons' conduct.
