CANADA
Calgary Herald
BY DARYL SLADE, CALGARY HERALD MAY 10, 2013
An emotional former church youth volunteer fought back tears Friday as he apologized to the parents of a half-dozen boys he sexually abused and used to make child pornography over a five-year period.
“I’d like to apologize to the court and I’d like to apologize to the parents. I’m very sorry for my actions,” a sobbing Roderick Kyle Janssen, 36, told provincial court Judge Catherine Skene at the conclusion of his sentencing hearing in provincial court.
“I realize it hurt you guys. I just apologize for everything. I want to do everything I can to ensure this will never happen again. I will take all the programs I can. I don’t want this to happen again.”
Earlier, Janssen’s lawyer, Kim Ross, argued for a total sentence of eight to 10 years for the six counts of either sexual assault or sexual interference on the six boys, as well as making child pornography of some of them and distributing many of the 78,841 images and 3,374 videos in his collection.
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