{"id":18100,"date":"2014-07-04T19:05:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T11:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=18100"},"modified":"2014-07-04T18:10:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T10:10:14","slug":"manitoba-school-trustee-pleads-guilty-to-internet-luring-spared-jail-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/04\/manitoba-school-trustee-pleads-guilty-to-internet-luring-spared-jail-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba school trustee pleads guilty to Internet luring, spared jail time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_131412323.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18101\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_131412323.jpg\" alt=\"pedophile internet crime cybercrime\" width=\"1000\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_131412323.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_131412323-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WINNIPEG\u2014A Manitoba school trustee has pleaded guilty to trying to entice who he thought was a 13-year-old girl into a sexual relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Norbert Van Deynze, who is 61, pleaded guilty in a Morden courtroom to a charge of Internet luring just as his preliminary hearing was set to begin.<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg Free Press got a transcript of the sentencing hearing.<\/p>\n<p>A police officer posing as a teen engaged in a series of explicit chats with Van Deynze between October 2011 and May 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Court was told the officer repeatedly stated her fictional age so there was no confusion as to who the accused thought he was talking to.<\/p>\n<p>Crown attorney Lee Turner was seeking 18 months of custody, but the judge noted Van Deynze\u2019s lack of a criminal record and a finding that deems him a low-risk to reoffend and gave him a 12-month conditional sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Mary Kate Harvie also place him on one year of supervised probation and banned him from having computer access and being alone with anyone under 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s totally and absolutely out of character,\u201d defence lawyer Richard Wolson told court.<\/p>\n<p>Van Deynze had been a trustee with the Prairie Spirit School Division for 16 years but resigned within days of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Wolson described Van Deynze as an otherwise model citizen who runs a successful family farming business, operates the local curling club, does countless community work and is a weekly church volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a man who has done everything right for his whole life,\u201d said Wolson. \u201cIt all came crashing down when he started to use these Internet chat lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His conditions included having no computer access and not being alone with anyone under the age of 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG\u2014A Manitoba school trustee has pleaded guilty to trying to entice who he thought was a 13-year-old girl into a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":18101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-headline","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}