SASKATOON\u2014A man who admitted to taking and hiding the daughter he fathered with his Brazilian mistress has been sentenced to 15 months in jail.<\/p>\n
Alexander Fiodor Levin of Saskatoon pleaded guilty earlier this week to child harbouring.<\/p>\n
He told court he took the girl from her mother as punishment when he found out the woman had been seeing other men.<\/p>\n
Levin and his mistress were visiting Ukraine when he took the one-year-old child to the\u00a0Philippines.\u00a0He left her there with a seamstress he had just met and returned to his wife and four children in Canada.<\/p>\n
Levin, 47, is getting about 3 1\/2 months credit for time already spent in custody.<\/p>\n
Judge Daryl Labach said he wasn\u2019t sure that Levin wouldn\u2019t do something similar in the future.<\/p>\n
Court heard earlier that Levin met Oziene Barbosa online and started an affair with her in Brazil about three years ago. She got pregnant and gave birth while Levin was back in Canada.<\/p>\n
The couple\u2019s daughter, Ieda Alexendra Levin, was already a year old when he went back to Brazil to meet the child last spring.<\/p>\n
Levin, Barbosa and the little girl were already in Ukraine when he acquired Barbosa\u2019s Facebook password, went through her profile and discovered that she had been seeing at least three other men while they were apart.<\/p>\n
Levin said he felt infidelity is \u201cthe most heinous act one person can inflict on another\u201d and had expected his mistress to stay faithful even though he had a wife and family back home.<\/p>\n
He said he was so traumatized when he discovered Barbosa\u2019s infidelities that he took Ieda in late June 2013. He told his mistress, who only speaks Portuguese and was pregnant with another of Levin\u2019s children, that he and Ieda were going to buy milk.<\/p>\n
He instead left behind a bit of money and a plane ticket for Barbosa to get back to South America and took the girl to Bulgaria, Turkey and Dubai before landing in the\u00a0Philippines.<\/p>\n
Levin told court that he knew he\u2019d have trouble getting a visa for Ieda if he tried to bring her to Canada, so he left her with a seamstress who had repaired a stroller for him.<\/p>\n
He gave up Ieda\u2019s location after his arrest last October. She was picked up by\u00a0Filipino\u00a0social services and returned to her mother later that month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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