Man Who Used Icicles During Sex Jailed
POSTED: 11:11 PM EST January 12, 2004
OWEN SOUND, Ont. -- A 79-year-old man who used icicles, lengths of pipe and motor oil on his elderly partner in "demeaning and degrading" sexual assaults because he had troubled getting aroused was sentenced Monday to two years less a day in jail.
The man, who wasn't named to protect the identity of the 71-year-old victim, was convicted last April by Justice Julia Morneau on three counts of sexual assault and two counts of threatening to cause bodily harm.
Since then, sentencing has been adjourned several times, including to allow time for the man to have heart surgery. He must also serve a year's probation after his jail term.
The man committed "degrading, dehumanizing and demeaning" acts on the woman, who is "elderly and quite helpless," assistant Crown attorney Peter Leger told the Ontario court earlier.
Court also was told the man turned to bizarre means to satisfy his sexual desires because he had erectile-dysfunction problems as a result of having one testicle surgically removed.
The woman left her partner of three years and contacted police in October 2001, court heard. He was arrested on sexual assault and threatening charges in January 2002.
Morneau rejected defence requests that the man be given a suspended sentence and probation, or for his sentence to be served at home, saying they didn't reflect the seriousness of the crime.
"The range of sentence is one of the most difficult I have faced," said Morneau.
The man "shows no remorse and there is no reasonable prospect of rehabilitation," she wrote. "The safety at stake is that of any female that he dates or lives with."
Morneau said the 71-year-old woman was "crying and/ or screaming when she 'asked' him to stop."
She said the man had no more insight into the "demeaning and degrading" nature of his recent crimes than he did when he was jailed for six months for a bizarre sexual assault in 1965, when he tied up a naked woman he was dating two or three times and hung her from a ceiling hook.
The latest sexual assaults encompassed three different incidents.
In February 1999, he suspended the woman's legs in an unheated wood shop and used a wooden bench and leg restraints in an attempt to have sex.
Morneau cited the victim's testimony that the "threatened to cut her into little pieces, throw them in the bush and when they found the pieces, he would be gone," events that resulted in the assault and threatening charges.
A year later, the woman disrobed at her partner's request. Court was told he gave the woman, who didn't drink alcohol, vodka in her orange juice without her knowledge. He then put a plastic bag over her head and attempted to assault her on a kitchen counter.
On other occasions, an icicle, a roughly sanded plastic pipe and motor oil were used on the woman, who was also threatened with a hammer and a shovel.
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POSTED: 11:11 PM EST January 12, 2004
OWEN SOUND, Ont. -- A 79-year-old man who used icicles, lengths of pipe and motor oil on his elderly partner in "demeaning and degrading" sexual assaults because he had troubled getting aroused was sentenced Monday to two years less a day in jail.
The man, who wasn't named to protect the identity of the 71-year-old victim, was convicted last April by Justice Julia Morneau on three counts of sexual assault and two counts of threatening to cause bodily harm.
Since then, sentencing has been adjourned several times, including to allow time for the man to have heart surgery. He must also serve a year's probation after his jail term.
The man committed "degrading, dehumanizing and demeaning" acts on the woman, who is "elderly and quite helpless," assistant Crown attorney Peter Leger told the Ontario court earlier.
Court also was told the man turned to bizarre means to satisfy his sexual desires because he had erectile-dysfunction problems as a result of having one testicle surgically removed.
The woman left her partner of three years and contacted police in October 2001, court heard. He was arrested on sexual assault and threatening charges in January 2002.
Morneau rejected defence requests that the man be given a suspended sentence and probation, or for his sentence to be served at home, saying they didn't reflect the seriousness of the crime.
"The range of sentence is one of the most difficult I have faced," said Morneau.
The man "shows no remorse and there is no reasonable prospect of rehabilitation," she wrote. "The safety at stake is that of any female that he dates or lives with."
Morneau said the 71-year-old woman was "crying and/ or screaming when she 'asked' him to stop."
She said the man had no more insight into the "demeaning and degrading" nature of his recent crimes than he did when he was jailed for six months for a bizarre sexual assault in 1965, when he tied up a naked woman he was dating two or three times and hung her from a ceiling hook.
The latest sexual assaults encompassed three different incidents.
In February 1999, he suspended the woman's legs in an unheated wood shop and used a wooden bench and leg restraints in an attempt to have sex.
Morneau cited the victim's testimony that the "threatened to cut her into little pieces, throw them in the bush and when they found the pieces, he would be gone," events that resulted in the assault and threatening charges.
A year later, the woman disrobed at her partner's request. Court was told he gave the woman, who didn't drink alcohol, vodka in her orange juice without her knowledge. He then put a plastic bag over her head and attempted to assault her on a kitchen counter.
On other occasions, an icicle, a roughly sanded plastic pipe and motor oil were used on the woman, who was also threatened with a hammer and a shovel.
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