Judge wants more information before sex case sentence

Calgarian Michael Wozny was on parole for manslaughter when he convinced a 14-year-old Carstairs girl to perform a sex act on him, court heard Friday.

Reading from a statement of agreed facts, Crown prosecutor Deanna Dalseide Haase said the convicted killer had gone to the central Alberta town in August 2014, to sell cigarettes and marijuana. There he met his teenage victim, the prosecutor said.

“The accused insisted the complainant perform oral sex on him,” Dalseide Haase told Court of Queen’s Bench Justice David Gates.

“The complainant was afraid to say no and complied.”

Over the course of the next few days he sexually molested her on two other occasions, including an incident in which he videotaped the abuse on his cellphone, Dalseide Haase said.

Both she and defence counsel Katherin Beyak agreed a sentence of two years, minus credit for remand time, was adequate for Wozny, now 33, who pleaded guilty to sexual interference.

But Gates said he needed more information before determining whether he could accept the joint recommendation from the lawyers.

He adjourned the case to November, to set a date to continue the sentencing hearing.

At the time of the assaults, Wozny was on parole from a nearly fiveyear sentence he was serving for manslaughter in the killing of a Calgary man.

Wozny and Alexander Vuozzo went to the home of Kevin Bowser on Jan. 9, 2008, with the intention of stealing his marijuana.

But when the break-in went south, Wozny fled and Vuozzo, who was later convicted of murder, stabbed the victim with a machete.

Wozny remains in custody pending a resolution to his case.

The accused insisted the complainant perform oral sex on him. The complainant was afraid to say no and complied.