Man jailed for internet luring after girl, 13, sends graphic photos

Having an online relationship with a 13-year-old San Diego girl in which he persuaded her to share graphic photos has landed a Calgary man a 27-month sentence.

But with enhanced credit for his so-called dead time at the Calgary Remand Centre, Jasper Mckinstry will have another 14 months to serve on charges of internet luring and transmitting sexually explicit material to a minor.

Crown prosecutor Carolyn Ayre and defence lawyer Gloria Froese jointly proposed the 14-month term, plus an additional 30 days for breaching his bail, which will allow Mckinstry to get sex-offender treatment at the Calgary Correctional Centre.

Froese said her client welcomes the opportunity for treatment, something Mckinstry echoed when provincial court Judge Allan Fradsham gave him a chance to speak.

“I am rather looking forward to being able to do this program,” Mckinstry said of the Rocky Mountain Program at the provincial jail.

“Not only will I be able to get better, but quite honestly I don’t want to harm people,” he said.

“What I put the victim and her family through is enough.”

Mckinstry said he was sexually abused as a child and knows the harm such crimes cause.

“I hope this resolution today will help them move on with their lives,” he said. “I would much rather the cycle of abuse end.”

Mckinstry met his victim online in the summer of 2015, when she told him she was 18.

The following July, she told him her true age of 13 years old.

Despite that, they continued an online romantic relationship which included exchanging explicit photographs of each other.