A Regina man who admitted to paying an underage girl for sex has been sentenced to jail.
On Wednesday, Queen’s Bench Justice Fred Kovach sentenced Martin Borni to one year in prison after accepting a joint submission from the Crown and defence. Borni was also ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
Borni, 52, earlier pleaded guilty to obtaining the sexual services of a person under 18.
The victim, who was 15, had run away from a group home on the night of the offence, which occurred in April 2009.
The girl waved down Borni’s van and got into the vehicle while he was driving home from studying at the University of Regina.
Court heard Borni made no effort to confirm the age of the teenaged girl after she told him she was 20 years old.
The two drove to the city’s Warehouse District, where Borni paid the girl to have sex with him in his van before dropping her off on Albert Street.
A lawyer for Borni said his client has no previous criminal record and has accepted responsibility for his actions.
Editor’s Note: On June 21, 2023, the Parole Board of Canada awarded Martin Borni a Record Suspension / Pardon for his 2014 conviction of “communicate for the purpose of prostitution with a person under 18 years of age,” under the Criminal Records Act. A record suspension does not erase a convicted offence, but sets it aside. It has the effect of removing a person’s criminal record from the Canadian Police Information Database. A record suspension (or pardon) can be revoked or cease to have affect if someone is convicted of a new offence, is to found to no longer be of good conduct, or breaches other conditions as set out by the Parole Board of Canada.
