Man gets three years for second child-luring crime

41-year-old placed online ad in October

A Saskatoon man who placed a Craigslist ad looking for a “little girl to teach, take care of and punish,” has been sentenced to prison for three years.

This is 41-year-old David Hubbard’s second conviction for Internet luring.

In 2008, he was sentenced to 18 months in jail for luring and possession of child pornography.

On Oct. 16, 2013, undercover Saskatoon city police officers saw the online ad, in which Hubbard specified he wanted “no whores, the younger the better, obedient, no endless emails.” He also wanted photographs. An undercover officer replied, pretending to be a 15-year-old girl named Nicky.

For three days, they exchanged emails and text messages in which Hubbard, who called himself Daddy, described sexual activity he wanted to engage in with the girl.

Officers discussing the case realized the man was probably Hubbard.

Police began watching him and confirmed their suspicions.

After the officer agreed to meet Hubbard at a park so they could have sex, he was arrested there and spent the next 101 days in jail until his guilty plea and sentencing Monday in provincial court.

His previous conviction in 2008 resulted from incidents in 2006 that began when a mother contacted police after discovering that a man had been using social media to contact her 13-year-old daughter.

The police took over the girl’s account, and Hubbard arranged a meeting, offering to pay the girl for sex. He was arrested at the schoolyard where they were to meet.

After police seized his computer, they discovered videos of children being sexually exploited.

It led to Hubbard’s first criminal conviction and an 18-month sentence, two years of probation and an order to sign up with the national sex offender registry.

When he was released from jail, he didn’t attend a sex offender treatment program and was given a six-month conditional sentence to be served in the community, court heard.

Just two weeks later, a woman who knew his criminal background told police she’d seen Hubbard standing across the street from an elementary school on registration day, watching the school and smoking a cigarette.

When police talked to him, he admitted he had a computer, contrary to his conditions. The conditional sentence was revoked and he served the rest of the term in jail.

After his release in January 2011, Hubbard failed to register with the national sex offender list and was sentenced to 45 days for the infraction.

In May of that year, he was arrested for solicitation and again breaching his release conditions. He got another three months in jail and a year of probation.

Defence lawyer Leslie Sullivan said Hubbard suffered a brain injury when he was a child.

Although he is well read and articulate, he has few social connections, she said.

His parents are dead and he is estranged from his sister.

He wants to take whatever treatment he can while in prison, Sullivan said.