Judge denies bail after third hearing to man facing 12 sex-related charges
Following his third bail-related hearing, a Saskatoon man accused of 12 child and adult sex-related crimes, including child luring and sexual assault, will remain in custody until his trial.
Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Daniel Konkin rendered his decision late Tuesday, retroactively imposing a publication ban on his reasons for upholding a provincial court judge’s March decision to deny Jason Troy Hann bail.
The defence requested a detention review at the higher court in hopes of overturning Judge Sanjeev Anand’s decision.
“Their ground for application is that the bail decision was clearly inappropriate and (Hann) should not have been held,” Crown prosecutor Lana Morelli said on Wednesday.
Hann, 45, was charged on Feb. 13 with child luring, sexual assault, sexual interference, sexual exploitation, making sexually explicit material available to a minor, obtaining the sexual services of a minor and possessing and sharing child pornography with two girls, ages 15 and 16.
The offences allegedly took place between May 1, 2019, and Feb. 13, 2020.
Saskatoon provincial court Judge Lua Gibb released Hann on $2,500 bail with 24-hour electronic monitoring, but another bail hearing was held just days later after Hann was rearrested on new charges of sexual assault, voyeurism, two counts of publishing an intimate image without consent and one count of sharing child porn involving a woman.
On March 13, Anand denied Hann’s release after hearing the new allegations, which, according to court documents, stem from between Jan. 1, 2018 and Feb. 13, 2020 — not during Hann’s brief time on bail.
The details presented at both provincial court bail hearings and the judge’s decisions cannot be reported, as per standard publication bans.
Hann’s next scheduled court appearance is June 30.