A former Waterloo, Ont., elementary faculty principal will serve 4 years behind bars after pleading responsible final 12 months to baby sexual exploitation and baby pornography offences.
It stems from a joint investigation involving police from London, Toronto and Waterloo.
Phillip Sallewsky, 57, appeared in a London courtroom on Tuesday for sentencing. The Crown had sought six years whereas the defence had requested for 2.
The lawyer representing Sallewsky on the listening to, Stephen Troyer of London-based Ellis Felony Regulation, declined to remark to in regards to the end result.
The previous principal of Waterloo’s Northlake Woods Public Faculty had admitted to speaking on-line with two youngsters by Snapchat who he believed have been 13 and 14 years previous.
The youngsters have been truly undercover cops.
Police stated Sallewsky shared sexually specific textual content messages and photos with the 2 officers starting in February 2023, utilizing a number of usernames, together with Sam and Chuck.
Sallewsky was arrested in March 2023 at a Burlington GO Transit station the place he had organized to satisfy with one of many women. He was later positioned in London police examine. He had additionally organized plans to satisfy with the opposite lady.
Initially charged with 17 offences, Sallewsky entered responsible pleas final 12 months to 6, together with two of transmitting sexually specific materials to an individual underneath 16, two of luring an individual underneath 16, and one every of constructing and transmitting written baby pornography.
The crimes pleaded to occurred in London, in line with the Waterloo Area File. Sallewsky messaged the teenagers from his residence, a hockey area and his faculty workplace, the report says.
Sallewsky had been a registered member of the Ontario School of Lecturers since 1992. He graduated from Western College with a Bachelor of Training that 12 months, and obtained a Grasp of Training from Brock College in 2001.
His certificates of qualification and registration with the faculty was listed as “Cancelled – Resigned” as of April 24, 2023.
