4.5-year sentence for Surrey man who sexually abused girls aged 12 and 14

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A erstwhile Surrey, B.C., existent property cause who sexually abused a 12- and 14-year-old miss and made video recordings of his maltreatment of the younger unfortunate has been sentenced to 4 and a fractional years successful prison.

But aft recognition for clip served, Paul Atanassov volition walk conscionable a small much than different twelvemonth down bars.

Atanassov, 28, was primitively charged with 14 offences, including intersexual battle and kid luring. He yet pleaded blameworthy to intersexual interference and making kid pornography.

“I person nary uncertainty some [victims] person suffered and volition proceed to endure life-altering affectional and intelligence harm due to the fact that of Mr. Atanassov’s offending,” B.C. Supreme Court Justice Martha Devlin told the tribunal connected Thursday.

“Mr. Atanassov presents arsenic an offender who astatine the time, willingly engaged successful careless, high-risk, self-indulgent behaviour and who had deficiencies successful his motivation compass.”

At his sentencing hearing, the tribunal heard however Atanassov plied his victims, who were 12 and 14 years old, with drugs and intoxicant and repeatedly engaged successful unprotected intersexual intercourse with the younger of the two.

This “not lone earnestly violated her bodily integrity but besides exposed her to further wellness risks including the anticipation of carnal injury, pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease,” Devlin told the court.

The Crown argued that Atanassov minimized his culpability successful the abuse, claiming his victims had deceived him astir their ages.

The girl’s property should person been readily evident to him, the Crown argued.

Devlin noted the victims’ young ages and the video recordings were some aggravating factors successful the crime.

One of the video recordings helium made of himself abusing the 12-year-old miss was aboriginal shared with different teen miss and subsequently circulated connected societal media, further victimizing the girl.

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That unfortunate precocious reported being addicted to ace cocaine, Devlin noted successful delivering her sentence.

“It is peculiarly troubling that Mr. Atanassov forwarded an illicit video to different young idiosyncratic …apparently successful an effort to marque her jealous,” Devlin said.

“In doing so, Mr. Atanassov exposed an further kid to harm and relinquished power of the video, which unluckily disseminated passim [the victim’s] adjacent radical and to [her] mother, amplifying the harm caused to [her] immensely and raising the anticipation the video remains connected the net today.”

Mitigating factors successful the case, Devlin ruled, included Atanassov’s blameworthy pleas, his look of remorse and shame and the information that helium has nary anterior transgression record.

The Crown had sought an eight-year sentence.

Atanassov’s defence had sought a three-year condemnation followed by six months connected the kid pornography charge, arguing Atanassov “has paid a important terms for his behaviour” and has “lost his chosen tract of employment.”

His lawyer argued Atanassov had been the taxable of 2 acts of vigilantism, had been attacked and stabbed successful jail, and that media sum of the lawsuit had been “salacious.”

Atanassov has been successful custody since November 2022, aft being caught breaching his bail. He has an further 370 days to service successful situation aft recognition for clip served, aft which helium volition service 2 years of probation.