By Kira Wronska Dorward Local Journalism Initiative Editor’s note: This story contains details that some readers may find disturbing. The Nunavut Court of Justice has handed down a 12-year sentence in a sexual abuse case involving a minor. Robert Sheaves will serve 4,308 days in prison after his 48 days in custody was accounted for, justice Paul Bychok decided in Iqaluit on Nov. 12. “Old habits, they say, die hard,” wrote Bychok in the opening of his sentencing judgment. “So too, evidently, do old habits of thought. In 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada… issued a landmark unanimous decision directing courts to modernize its approach to sentencing offenders who sexually abuse children. Despite the Supreme Court’s declared ‘determination’ to see jail sentences increase in appropriate cases for these heinous crimes,…
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