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“Let’s postpone his jail sentence until May so he can finish his year of university. Nobody has stood up and said no, during the whole thing — there was not one time where the judge or even the Crown said ‘please, this is not right.’ The victims are the ones who have been paying over and over, every time we went to court.”

Neurauter, who was 18 at the time, was charged in 2016 in connection with an inappropriate relationship he had with a 13-year-old Kamloops girl.

The girl’s mother told Postmedia neither the sentence nor the conviction reflect the true nature of the crime.

“They make it sound like they were having some sort of non-intercourse sexual relationship — that she was having an affair with an older boy,” she said.

While the exact details are protected under the publication ban, the victim’s mother is incensed over implications made on social media her daughter was a willing participant in the relationship with Neurauter.

Under Canadian law, the minimum age to legally consent to sexual activity is 16.

She described the relationship as a violation of trust by someone her quiet and reserved daughter had looked up to as a big-brother figure.

The victim, her mother said, acquiesced in his demands for nude photos as a desperate measure of self-protection.

“The reason my daughter started sending photos was so that, hopefully, when he requested them, he would not want to see her in person because she was afraid to be with him,” she said.