Contractor Jailed for Sexual Assault, Power Imbalance

0:00A greater Victoria contractor named Kyle Christopher Mastawi, who's 57 years old, just got hit with an eight-month jail sentence for sexually, assaulting one of his employees back in 2014. This comes after a jury found him guilty last June, marking another chapter in his history of targeting women who worked for him. He'd already done time for assaulting five female employees from his construction business around 2010 and 2011. Here this week, the judge handed down the sentence during a video hearing from custody, where Mastawi's already serving 90 days for breaking. Bail rules by hiring women. He'd won an appeal on an earlier conviction for this same case, after serving 35 days, leading to a retrial. At the time of the assault, he was on bail with strict conditions not to employ women, but he ignored that. Prosecutors painted a clear picture of the assaults happening at least twice in different spots. Mastawi ignoring the woman's pleas to stop as. She groped her body despite her desperation for the job and the cash.

1:00The crown pushed for nine months plus probation to send a message that employees aren't objects to exploit, noting his moderate re-offending risk and dim rehab odds. The judge called out his repeated pattern in boss employee power dynamic as aggravating factors, even if this assault wasn't the worst kind. She contrasted his community support letters, highlighting his pilot gig and work ethic with his criminal record and total lack of insight saying past. Judges nailed it when they said he just doesn't get it. This ruling aims to snap him out of seeing grabs as harm was flirting stressing deterrence given his track record and after crediting time served. He'll do about six more months behind bars before getting a shot at turning things around. That wraps Canada News today brought to you with AI.