36-year-old Jeremie Raphael Roy of Red Deer has been given a two-year conditional sentence after he pleaded guilty to one count of making child pornography and luring a child. The Crown had proceeded by way of indictment.
In an agreed statement of facts by the Crown and defence in a Calgary court on Nov. 30, Regina Police Service received a report from 13-year-old TP that she had been Snapchat messaging with an unknown person using her friend MK’s cellphone. The unknown person, later identified as Roy, had identified himself as a 23-year-old male named Jeremie.
As ‘Jeremie,’ Roy sent TP an image of an erect penis and two headshots of himself, counselled TP to touch her vagina, asked her to send him sexually explicit images (which she did), and suggested to her that they meet to engage in sexual activity. This conversation happened over the course of one day.
MK’s mother gave the Regina Police MK’s cellphone for forensic analysis. The analysis showed the unknown person’s Snapchat username as ‘jeremie_legac19.’ The United States Department of Homeland Security gave the Regina Police information connecting the jeremie_legac19 account to an IP address and cellphone number. General Production Order results from Bell and Shaw confirmed that the cellphone number belonged to Roy and the IP address belonged to Roy’s mother at the Red Deer residence where she and Roy lived. Red Deer RCMP obtained and executed a search warrant at the residence, seizing five electronic devices.
Forensic analysis of the seized devices found the Snapchat conversation between Roy and TP, including the three images he sent her, and found a total of 102 chats (across various chat programs) in which either the recipient disclosed that they were underaged and Roy continued to have sexual related conversation with them, or Roy told the recipient(s) that he wanted to or did have sexual encounters with underaged persons.
Court heard that a pre-sentence report was done and Roy works about 40 hours a week as a fulfillment coordinator at a farming and resources co-operative.
Roy has been employed for most of his adult life. He had worked full-time in industrial security but lost his security license pending the outcome of this matter. Roy told the PSR writer that he then secured several oilfield tickets in an effort to find a new career to support himself. Since the PSR was written, Roy secured employment as a fulfillment coordinator at a farming and resources co-operative, where he currently works about 40 hours a week.
A report from Forensic Assessment and Outpatient Services was also done.
Roy acknowledged that he has accessed pornography but denied ever being addicted to it, telling the FAOS Report writer that he previously watched porn “maybe twice per week” but stopped when this happened and no longer watches it.
When discussing these offences, Roy stated he “screwed up” by “talking to people on Snapchat that were underage.” He explained: “Snapchat… offers samples of people you might not normally meet. I met a girl and asked how old she was, and she said underage. She asked for a picture, so I sent one of my penis and I asked for one (a picture) back. She sent one back and now I’m in trouble.” He explained that he did not specifically remember the victim saying she was 13 years of age before asking for and sending sexually explicit material but would have known it was legally and morally wrong at the time he engaged in those activities.
Roy told the FAOS Report writer that he “had no intentions of meeting up with” the victim for sex and “couldn’t afford to do that,” explaining why he would have nonetheless asked her to because “it continues the conversation, otherwise it stalls.” Roy told the FAOS Report writer that his activities on Snapchat do not involve sexual fantasies of the individuals he communicates with or masturbation. He told the FAOS Report writer that he has had conversations with other underage individuals, but has never met up with any of them, adding: “I just want to talk to people to meet online and hang out, I just need some social communication.” He noted that when he makes comments regarding him and an individual perhaps meeting up, “this continues the conversation until they realize I’m full of shit and don’t want to meet up… It gets lonely only talking to your dog and your mother.”
When the FAOS Report writer asked Roy how much he identifies with children, he responded “not really, we just have good conversations.” He indicated that he is simply starved for meaningful human connection, and that “any conversation would be nice, to know that someone would want to get to know me.” He stated he is mostly interested in women aged 25 to 40 years.
Roy will be required to provide his DNA.
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