Crown seeks prison time for Edmonton police officer who sought sex of the victims of the crime

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If the prosecutors of the crown go out with theirs, an Edmonton police officer who used their work to chase vulnerable women by sex will serve time after bars.

The defense, on the other hand, says that it would be an error imprisoning a man whose bad behavior can be attributed, in part, to posttraumatic stress derived from his military service in Afghanistan.

On Tuesday, the judge of the King court, Susan Bercov, heard sentence arguments in the case of const. Hunter Robinz, who He declared himself guilty in October 2024 at a position of trusted criminal breach.

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Robinz, who is suspended from the Edmonton police service without pay, accepted To make advances to eight women while he was on service and in uniform, including an intoxicated woman who left at home and then returned to the sex proposal for more than an hour.

Robinz also had a sexual relationship with a woman who was a victim of domestic violence. The relationship finally prevented a rape kit when the woman was sexually attacked by her partner “Because he had recently had sex with his police officer ‘Novio’,” says an agreed statement of events.

The prosecutor of the Chotini Papadatou crown advocated a sentence of two or three years of imprisonment, which would see Robinz spend time in the federal prison.

She said the federal time would properly denounce Robinz’s crime and give access to psychiatric services that are not available in the provincial corrections system.

Papadatou argued that the public would not be sure if Robinz was allowed to comply with his sentence in the community.

“I think I should get help in a federal institution,” Papadatou told Bercov.

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She added: “He should never be in a position where he can be a police officer or a prison guard or in a position in which he has power over people.“

The defense lawyer Allan Fay pressed for a conditional sentence order, to be delivered in the community.

“There is no doubt that Mr. Robinz was subject to a duty,” Fay said. “Failed.

However, Fay said Robinz’s time as a combat soldier in Afghanistan decreases his “moral guilt.”

“It is clear that Mr. Robinz saw the death and destruction visited to his fellow soldiers,” Fay told the Court. “() He molded it in something that was not before this.”

More to come.

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