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“Thank you, your Honour,” the family of a child sexual assault victim said from the gallery after a Saskatoon provincial court judge gave the child’s rapist, Kenneth John Bowman, an 18-year dangerous offender sentence.

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Judge Doug Agnew accepted a joint submission from the Crown and defence to impose a determinate sentence, seeking to balance Bowman’s high risk to sexually reoffend with his potential for rehabilitation.

The sentencing process was initiated after Bowman pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault against two different boys, administering a stupefying drug, making and distributing child pornography and arranging to commit a sexual offence against a child.

Bowman also had a previous conviction from 2011 for sexually touching a 10-year-old girl in 2004.

Agnew said Bowman met the criteria for a dangerous offender designation because he demonstrated a repeated failure to control his sexual impulses.