R. v. A.J.

Decided: 2026-10-09. Docket: COA-25-CR-0604. Citation: 2026 ONCA 727 (CanLII). Criminal and statutory offences — Sentencing appeal — Sexual interference — Criminal Code, s. 151 — Whether sentence was demonstrably unfit — Errors in principle affecting fitness and deference — Appellate court to perform its own sentencing analysis — Sentence varied to four years’ imprisonment less credit for 479 days | Procedure — Sentencing reasons — Error in principle — Risk assessment — Whether finding of significant danger to children was flawed — Ambiguity in pre-sentence report statement and failure to account for seven-year gap — Risk finding impacted rehabilitation and sentence — Sentence appeal allowed | Procedure — Sentencing principles — Jump principle — Whether sentencing judge failed to consider