Naming your attacker would be ‘unfair,’ Toronto judge tells sex assault victim before handing down ‘very low’ sentence
Toronto Star · Jacques Gallant ·
Sex assault victim Susan Gilbreath was in disbelief — “Are we protecting the victim? Or are we protecting the perpetrator?”
When Susan Gilbreath asked to have the publication ban removed on her name at the sentencing of the ex-boyfriend who violently sexually assaulted her, the judge said it felt “very unfair.”
To Gilbreath’s attacker.
And then came the prison sentence for Frederick Moore: three-and-a-half years for aggravated sexual assault, far below what the Crown was asking for, and which Superior Court Justice Gillian Roberts herself acknowledged was “very low.” Moore was then promptly released on bail pending appeal.
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