{
 "id": "010",
 "offence": "teacher and a 16-year-old",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "years": "2012 / 2014",
 "story": [
  "He was a teacher, 53. For half a year he was in a relationship with a 16-year-old student: oral sex, digital penetration; no intercourse. He pleaded guilty. Sentence: 14 months in jail.",
  "She was a teacher. She met the boy when he was 13 and living in a group home as a Crown ward, then took him in as her foster son. When he was 16 the sex began — \"many times a month, for several years\" — until he ended it himself. She pleaded guilty. The court cited her illnesses and the fact that a term over 90 days would cost her a new job. Sentence: 90 days on weekends.",
  "Later a judge in British Columbia wrote in another case that her case was \"far more serious\" than his."
 ],
 "male": {
  "case": "R. v. Biss",
  "citation": "2012 ONCJ 604",
  "court": "Ontario Court of Justice",
  "date": "2012-09-27",
  "charge": "sexual exploitation (Criminal Code s. 153)",
  "outcome": "pleaded guilty",
  "sentence": "14 months in jail",
  "facts": "Teacher, 53; grade 11 student, 16; about half a year. 14 months and 3 years of probation (paras. 1–2, 4, 6, 84).",
  "source": "https://www.canlii.org/en/on/oncj/doc/2012/2012oncj604/2012oncj604.html"
 },
 "female": {
  "case": "R. v. C.S.",
  "citation": "2014 ONCJ 371",
  "court": "Ontario Court of Justice",
  "date": "2014-07-25",
  "charge": "sexual exploitation (Criminal Code s. 153)",
  "outcome": "pleaded guilty",
  "sentence": "90 days on weekends",
  "facts": "Teacher and foster mother; the boy was a Crown ward; sex from age 16, for several years. 90 days on weekends, 3 years of probation, registry for 20 years (paras. 1–3, 9, 31, 34, 36, 38, 40).",
  "source": "https://www.canlii.org/en/on/oncj/doc/2014/2014oncj371/2014oncj371.html"
 },
 "law": [
  "Criminal Code s. 718.2(b)",
  "Charter s. 15",
  "Charter s. 28"
 ],
 "after": "A judge of the Provincial Court of British Columbia in R. v. Smith (2017 BCPC 265, para. 46): the circumstances of C.S. were \"far more serious\" than Biss's.",
 "after_source": "https://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcpc/doc/2017/2017bcpc265/2017bcpc265.html",
 "added": "2026-10-17"
}