Sex offender signs recognizance limiting contact for two years

A former North Sydney man, released after serving a federal sentence on sex offences, agreed Wednesday to sign a recognizance limiting his contact with certain individuals for two years.

Jeffrey Daniel MacIntyre, 26, was arrested early Wednesday morning at a New Brunswick prison and was brought before a Sydney provincial court judge.

Among the conditions of his recognizance, MacIntyre is initially to live at a Sydney men’s shelter and report to police any change in his address.

He is to have no contact with anyone under the age of 16, including the victim of the offences for which he was sentenced, and is not to possess any device capable of accessing the Internet.

He is also to stay away from parks, swimming pools and other locations where individuals under the age of 16 are likely to gather and is not allowed to volunteer or be employed with any group or service that deals with individuals under 16.

MacIntyre served his entire federal sentence after the National Parole Board deemed he was a risk to commit a sexual offence involving a child or do serious harm to another person if he was released.

He was sentenced after pleading guilty in 2015 to two counts of luring a child under 16 for a sexual purpose, two counts of breaching court orders, two counts of possession of child pornography, extortion, single counts of sexual assault and committing an indecent act.

He was sentenced to serve two years and five-and-a-half months.

The offences involved a 13-year-old girl MacIntyre met online. He initially told the girl he was 16.

After several months of communications, they met in March 2014 and engaged in sexual intercourse.

They again had sex the following day, after which MacIntyre suffered a seizure.

When paramedics arrived, the girl learned he was 22. The girl had sent MacIntyre nude photos of herself, which he later threatened to post online if she didn’t contact him.

In July, the board revoked MacIntyre’s statutory release after it was learned that he had a cell phone with which he accessed the Internet, including pornographic websites, in breach of his special conditions.

In August, just prior to his second statutory release, the Correctional Service of Canada found a notebook in MacIntyre’s cell containing “drawings of pornographic images of young females and very crude, descriptive letters written by yourself … The materials, both drawings and writings, are considered extremely graphic in nature with several disturbing themes that include violence, restraints and non-complying victims.”

The board noted that the letters are from the point of view of girls aged eight to 14, including one using the name and age of his victim in a relationship with a man of his age and name.

MacIntyre initially denied any responsibility for the notebook, claiming he wrote in it for therapeutic purposes but later admitted it provided sexual stimulation.

“You asserted that there is a ‘monster’ inside you that sometimes wants to get out,” the board stated.

MacIntyre’s case management team recommended his detention be ordered as they concluded he would not be able to control his urges and no supervision program could adequately protect against the risk he would represent in the community.

MacIntyre has told the board he disagrees with the assessment he’s a high risk for sexual recidivism.