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A judge described the man from Edmonton’s string of “repugnant” crimes against a woman in the sex trade as warranting a 20-year prison term.
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The man, identified as PO in a written decision, was found guilty of 14 crimes, including sexual assault with a weapon, obstruction of justice, and human trafficking. All of these crimes involved an intimate partner that he also trafficked for sex.
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Because the woman’s identity is prohibited from being published, the man’s name is made anonymous in Court of King’s Bench Justice Steven Mandziuk’s ruling. The victim and the accused are unrelated.
PO, 32, watched indifferently on Wednesday as Mandziuk denounced his misdeeds and referred to human trafficking as “today’s global slave trade.” The judge decided on a 20-year sentence, with the most severe penalties of seven years each going to the charges of sexual assault with a weapon and person trafficking.
The Crown had requested 22 years to life, while the defense had requested a total of 10 1/2 years.
Sitting quietly in the courtroom was PO’s victim, who, according to Mandziuk, is still faithful to him and even testified on his behalf during the sentencing process.
After taking into account the pre-trial custody credit, PO will likely serve nine years and eight months more.
PO was found guilty of most of the crimes for which she was found guilty between 2014 and 2016. PO began driving the woman in November 2014, the court heard, taking her around Western Canada so she could perform sex acts for pay.
PO was in charge of making all the arrangements, which included booking the woman’s travel, lodging, advertising, and client meetings. He had complete control over the money she made.
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Threats, domineering behavior, and overt violence characterized the two’s own sexual relationship.
According to testimony given in court, PO threatened to shoot the woman for talking too loudly in mid-2015 while holding a gun to her head while she was using the restroom.
He made a video the following April in which he struck her and threatened her with a gun while she engaged in sexual acts with him. A few months later, PO told the woman to strip, beat her with a belt, and then sexually assault her after another man had made brief physical contact with her at a nightclub.
In November 2016, the woman ended the relationship and reported her concerns to the Edmonton police. The woman claimed in multiple interviews that PO had threatened her family and had hit, kicked, slapped, bit, and strangled her.
In the end, Mandziuk gave the police interviews more weight because the woman eventually altered some of the evidence, claiming that at the time she was “less subject to the accused’s influence and less concerned about preserving her relationship with him.”
On December 5, 2016, police detained PO. One of the seized items was a Ruger handgun chambered in.44.
