Plan for sex with mother, child not ‘fantasy’
Judge finds suspect guilty of arranging to commit sexual offence against a child
Warning: graphic content
When he told a woman he met on Craigslist that he wanted to be sexual with her and her 11-yearold daughter, he was partaking in what he believed was the woman’s “fantasy role play” so that she’d meet him for sex, Brendan Olynick would later tell police.
“I was just meeting her mom. I wasn’t going to do anything with the child,” Olynick said after he was arrested in a Saskatoon hotel lobby on Dec. 21, 2017.
The woman he’d been messaging for weeks was, in fact, a Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit officer — with a fictitious, underage daughter — who responded to Olynick’s ad looking for a mother-daughter threesome.
Although he said the ad was for an “age appropriate” daughter, Olynick knew the woman’s daughter was only 11, Saskatoon provincial court Judge Sanjeev Anand determined.
By attempting to meet the woman twice, wanting her to believe he was sexually interested in her daughter and telling police after his arrest that he was “aware of the risk” that she was not role-playing, Olynick at least intended for the woman to take the arrangements seriously, Anand said.
“So even though Mr. Olynick may have communicated the arrangement with the intention of arousing sexual desire in (the woman) because he intended to also induce in her the belief that the arrangement would actually be followed through upon, he was not engaged in the type of pure fantasy role play that would allow him to escape liability,” Anand wrote in his decision, finding Olynick guilty of arranging to commit a sexual offence against a child.
In detailed text messages presented at his trial, Olynick agreed to meet the mother and daughter at a hotel to go water sliding, have a group shower and share a kingsized bed, where he and the woman would start “fooling around,” show her daughter how to engage in sexual touching and then invite her to join in.
The initial arrangement was similar. It involved going to the woman’s house on New Year’s Eve for a movie night and having the girl catch them in a sex act.
UNDERCOVER OFFICER
An undercover officer posing as the woman said she would feel more comfortable if Olynick met her at a coffee shop first. She was told not to bring up anything of a sexual nature. Olynick talked about wanting a mother-daughter sexual encounter and asked if he could meet her daughter to see if she was comfortable around him.
In subsequent messages, he asked the woman what kinds of sex acts the three of them would engage in and assured her he was willing to go as far as she wanted.
Court heard Olynick told police he had no intentions of going through with the plan. He said his duffel bag contained a change of clothes, condoms and lubricant because he planned to have sex with the woman while her daughter slept, albeit in the same bed.
His lawyer, Brian Pfefferle, argued Olynick was playing along with the woman’s fantasy because he knew she liked it and he wanted to appease her.
Sentencing has been scheduled for later this month.
He intended to also induce in her the belief that the arrangement would actually be followed through upon