STRATFORD, Ont. - A 41-year-old Stratford, Ont., man was sentenced to 23 months in custody after pleading guilty to plying marijuana to young teenaged girls with the expectation they would have sex with him when they turned 16.
“What you were doing was preying upon vulnerable young women and engaging in a course of ongoing criminal conduct,” said Justice Kathryn McKerlie in sentencing John (Paul) Lacroix on Monday.
Lacroix, who has been held in custody for two months, recently pleaded guilty to charges of sexual interference, exposing himself, trafficking in marijuana, obstruction of justice and breaking bail conditions.
The jail time period includes time already spent in custody.
Reading from notes and at times sobbing, Lacroix made a lengthy statement from the prisoner’s box prior to his sentencing.
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