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A Victoria man who sexually assaulted his four-year-old daughter over a seven-month period acknowledged in court that he is a despicable and worthless human being.
“The Crown has called me a monster. I won’t disagree,” Trevor Leonard Landry said Friday at his sentencing hearing in B.C. Supreme Court.
Landry, 40, had pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting his child from December 2009 to June 2010 and possessing child pornography between Dec. 1, 2009, and his arrest on Aug. 5, 2010. He had no criminal record prior to the offences.
Landry also pleaded guilty to three offences he committed after he was released on bail on Aug. 17, 2010. These included accessing child pornography, breaching bail conditions and assault causing bodily harm to his partner. Landry was arrested on these charges on May 10, 2012, and has been in custody ever since.
On Friday, Justice Arne Silverman handed Landry a 5 1/2-year prison sentence minus the 13 months he spent in custody. Silverman imposed a 10-year weapons prohibition and a lifetime ban on the possession of prohibited weapons. Landry is banned for 10 years from working or volunteering with people under the age of 16. He is also prohibited from using a computer to communicate with anyone under the age of 16.
“It will be a crime … You’ll find yourself back in the slammer,” Silverman said.
According to a 15-page agreed statement of facts, Landry started dating a woman in July 2009 and the two planned to get married in July 2010. Landry was controlling and possessive of the woman, who had low self-esteem. They shared fantasies, including sex with children. Landry also downloaded child porn, with the woman going along with whatever Landry planned.
Landry sexually assaulted his daughter and, on two occasions, crushed adult sleeping pills and gave them to the girl in a drink. He encouraged his fiancée to touch the child in a sexual manner.
The girlfriend willingly complied, then began feeling terrible about what she had done. She broke off their relationship and tried to commit suicide in July 2010. In August, she told police what they had done.
In 2011, she pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual touching. She received a two-year conditional sentence followed by three years of probation with conditions to take counselling.
Silverman noted that there was no intercourse and that the child has no knowledge of what happened to her.
He also noted that a psychiatric report prepared after Landry’s arrest in 2010 found he was at moderate to high risk of violence toward his partners.
According to the agreed statement, Landry met a new partner on July 29, 2010, less than a week before he was arrested for sexually assaulting his daughter. She continued the relationship even though she became aware of the charges.
In November, Landry became increasingly nasty, controlling and manipulative. He was unable to control his anger and kicked a stool out from under his girlfriend, choked her, threatened to kill her and held a knife to her throat. The new girlfriend also tried to kill herself.
During this time, Landry used her electronic devices to access child porn.
“He utterly ignored his bail conditions. He just kept going as if he’d never been arrested,” Silverman said.
