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 that concerned police from London, Toronto, and Waterloo.
Phillip Sallewsky, 57, appeared in a London courtroom on Tuesday and was sentenced to 4 years in custody. The Crown had sought six years, whereas the defence had requested for 2.
The lawyer representing Sallewsky at Tuesday’s listening to, Stephen Troyer of London-based Ellis Felony Legislation, declined to remark to in regards to the end result.
The previous principal of Waterloo’s Northlake Woods Public College had admitted to speaking on-line with two youngsters by Snapchat who he believed had been 13 and 14-years-old.
The youngsters had been truly undercover cops.
Police stated Sallewsky shared sexually specific textual content messages and footage 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 fulfill with one of many ladies. He was later positioned into the custody of London police. He had additionally organized plans to fulfill with the opposite woman.
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 beneath 16, two of luring an individual beneath 16, and one every of constructing and transmitting written baby pornography.
The crimes pleaded to occurred in London, in response to the Waterloo Area Document. Sallewsky messaged the kids from his residence, from a hockey enviornment, and from 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 Schooling that 12 months, and acquired a Grasp of Schooling from Brock College in 2001.
His certificates of qualification and registration with the school was listed as “Cancelled – Resigned” as of April 24, 2023.
