Melfort, SK, Canada / CJVR Today s Best Country
Apr 7, 2021 2:34 PM
Editor’s note: the following story contains some graphic details. The identity of the victim is protected under a publication ban.
A 63-year-old man who exchanged intimate images with a 16-year-old girl and lured her to a hotel room in Saskatoon to have sex has received a 20-month jail sentence.
Oakley Blackstar, a former band councillor and a longtime educator at the Piapot First Nation in southern Saskatchewan, appeared at Saskatoon Provincial Court Tuesday for the sentencing hearing. He entered a guilty plea to luring a child to facilitate an offence. While the legal age of consent to sexual activity is 16, Blackstar admitted it was wrong to send sexual photos to someone under the age of 18.
After Blackstar is released from prison he will be on probation for three years. He must also submit a DNA sample. Blackstar was arrested by the Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation Unit (ICE) in September 2020 after ICE received a complaint about a man enticing a 16-year-old girl from the Saskatoon area through a popular online chat application to engage in sexual activity at a local hotel or other location. The ICE investigation identified the girl who said a man took her to his hotel room in June and sexually assaulted her. The investigation also revealed that the man was grooming the girl through the exchange of naked pictures after they became online friends. The ICE Unit identified Blackstar as the suspect.
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