College student sentenced to house arrest
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Posted By BOB VAILLANCOURT THE SUDBURY STAR
Posted 1 month ago
A College Boreal engineering student will be under house arrest for the next six months and then will be on probation for three years after pleading guilty in Sudbury court Thursday, to performing an indecent act.
Brahim Issaye, 25, admitted to exposing himself to a female acquaintance about midnight Jan. 3 on Bruce Street.
Issaye had originally been charged with sexual assault, but that charge was dropped following his guilty plea to the lesser charge.
Assistant Crown attorney Karen Lische told the court Issaye and the woman knew each other.
The woman had been drinking that evening and was heavily intoxicated, she said.
Issaye "took advantage of her intoxication," Lische told Superior Court Justice R.D. Cornell.
During his house arrest, Issaye may not leave his residence without the written permission of his sentencing supervisor, and then only for school, employment and for personal shopping on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
And he may only live at a residence approved by the sentencing supervisor.
Initially, the Crown's office had sought a court order that would require Issaye to wear an electronic bracelet that would monitor his movements.
But that request was abandoned when it was learned it was not technically possible in Issaye's case.
For electronic monitoring to work, there must be a landline telephone to carry the bracelet's signals back to the monitoring station.
But Issaye has no such landline, only a cellphone, his lawyer told the court.
Lawyer Jacob Gauthier said Issaye has one year left in his college civil engineering program.
bvaillancourt@thesudburystar.com
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