Second intimate videos charge stayed
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The Crown has stayed a second charge against a man previously convicted of making intimate videos of his ex-fiancée available on a porn site without her consent.
The Brandon businessman was convicted of spreading intimate images without consent in April and was sentenced to nine months in custody followed by two years of probation.
A publication ban on information that could identify the victim prevents the Sun from naming the offender.
The Brandon courthouse on 11th Street. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun files)
The man and the victim had made intimate videos while they were still in a relationship. The woman found out that he had posted the videos to Pornhub when he sent her a link to one of the videos in August 2020.
After an appeal hearing in September, the man’s conviction and sentence were upheld, aside from his Sex Offender Information Registration Act order being reduced to 10 years from 20. A SOIRA order requires a person to report to police annually to confirm or update personal information.
The man was charged again in March for the same offence after another woman came forward with similar allegations.
The Crown stayed that charge on Sept. 9.
Crown attorney Rich Lonstrup said the newer charges were stayed “based on our assessment that on the available evidence, there was no reasonable likelihood of conviction.”
Stayed charges can be re-laid for up to one year.
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