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 \u00a0custody was accounted for, justice Paul Bychok decided in Iqaluit on \u00a0Nov. 12. \u201cOld habits, they say, die hard,\u201d wrote Bychok in the opening of his \u00a0sentencing judgment. \u201cSo too, evidently, do old habits of thought. In \u00a02020, the Supreme Court of Canada… issued a landmark unanimous \u00a0decision directing courts to modernize its approach to sentencing \u00a0offenders who sexually abuse children. Despite the Supreme Court\u2019s \u00a0declared \u2018determination\u2019 to see jail sentences increase in appropriate \u00a0cases for these heinous crimes,… <\/p>\n
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 \u00a0custody was accounted for, justice Paul Bychok decided in Iqaluit on \u00a0Nov. 12. \u201cOld habits, they say, die hard,\u201d wrote Bychok in the opening of his \u00a0sentencing judgment. \u201cSo too, evidently, do old habits of thought. In \u00a02020, the Supreme Court of Canada… issued a landmark unanimous \u00a0decision directing courts to modernize its approach to sentencing \u00a0offenders who sexually abuse children. Despite the Supreme Court\u2019s \u00a0declared \u2018determination\u2019 to see jail sentences increase in appropriate \u00a0cases for these heinous crimes,... <\/p>\n