A Cranberry Portage man will spend a little over three years behind bars for sexually assaulting minors in that community.
Ryan James Rajczakowski, 21, was sentenced to 46 months in prison last week in Flin Flon Provincial Court.
Due to the time he has already spent in custody awaiting court dates and sentencing, his actual sentence amounts to just shy of 39 months.
“It’s within the range of what we expected,” said Crown prosecutor David Gray, referring to a sentence that he has no plans to appeal.
Having already spent 15 months and 10 days in custody, Rajczakowski will remain in prison for the next 23 and a half months, or until November of 2015.
Rajczakowski pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault stemming from an incident involving four minors, all of them females, in Cranberry Portage on Aug. 11, 2012.
Five other charges – including two additional counts of sexual assault – were dropped.
Supervised probation
After Rajczakowski completes his sentence, he will have three years of supervised probation.
He will have to register with the police once a year, or whenever he moves, for the rest of his life. He must also provide his DNA for the RCMP’s National DNA Data Bank.
Rajczakowski must also register with the child abuse registry and is prohibited from owning a firearm for at least 10 years.
The court chose to subtract from Rajczakowski’s sentence 1.5 days for every one day he spent in pre-sentencing custody, rather than one day.
The three other charges that were dropped consisted of one count of making child pornography, one count of possessing child pornography, and one count of breaking and entering into a location and committing an indictable offence therein.
Even though those charges were dropped, the judge was entitled to take their underlying evidence into account when deciding the sentence.
Rajczakowski was, as far as Gray knows, a university student at the time of his arrest last year.
In order to ensure compliance with a publication ban, The Reminder is publishing only limited details of the case.
