Sentence reduced for Victoria mom who sexually assaulted teen boy

The Supreme Court of B.C. has reduced a five-and-a-half-year jail sentence handed to a Victoria woman who lured and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old boy.

The woman — known as Ms. P to protect the identify of the victim — challenged the severity of the provincial court sentence, claiming the judge had misused mandatory minimum sentences when he made his ruling (comprised of two years each for two sex assaults and 18 months for luring all to be served consecutively) and that the global sentence was unfit.

Ms. P was sentenced in Colwood (a Greater Victoria suburb) provincial court last September following two incidents in April 2020 in which she had sex with the 15 year-old boy.

Provincial court heard that the then 25-year-old woman and mother was with a friend when she met a group of teens and exchanged alcohol for marijuana, then went to her home where the group partied, leading to sex between the woman and boy.