In delivering a sentence to a Langford business owner convicted of sexually assaulting five former employees, the judge remarked the offender "just doesn't get it."
Forty-seven year old Kyle Mostowy has been sentenced to 36 months total, to be served consecutively.
The judge found that Mostowy would gradually sexualize the atmosphere at his home office with his company, All-Canadian Construction Ltd., by giving the victims massages that would escalate over time to unwanted sexual touching. One victim was later hospitalized and placed under the care of a psychiatrist, while another was diagnosed with PTSD and placed on suicide watch.
In explaining the sentence, the judge wrote that Mostowy remains a moderate risk to refoffend unless he successfully completes counselling for sexual offenders.
The judge also wrote that Mostowy's "denial of responsibility was evident at his sentencing hearing where there were no expressions of remorse, only expressions of the negative impact of theses proceedings on his life, as if he were the victim."
Mostowy was given consecutive sentences that total 46 months, but, after considering the totality principle, the overall sentence was dropped to 36-months. The totality principle requires that a judge ordering consecutive sentences makes sure the sentence doesn't exceed the offender's overall culpability.