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Images and videos seized by police from Russell Dennis Wolfe’s home show “hands on abuse” to more than a dozen girls, according to the Crown.
The Crown presented some of the seized items Monday on day one of Wolfe’s sentencing hearing.
Wolfe, 58, pleaded guilty last month to 20 offences, including eight counts of sexual assault and four counts each of making child pornography and paying for sexual services from someone under 18.
Court heard Monday some of the thousands of images seized by members of the Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation Unit as part of a country-wide police bust in 2014 were taken in his house with girls from Saskatoon.
The Crown says the case involves 14 girls. Most were from Wolfe’s neighbourhood. Many knew each other. Some were sisters. Most were elementary school-aged and the youngest was nine years old.
One collage of naked photos shown by the case’s lead investigator documented a girl growing up from the age of 11.
Court heard Wolfe picked up the girls in his car before taking them to his place and giving them alcohol and drugs. He sometimes paid them to perform sexual acts and pose naked for photos, the Crown said. The abuse started in 1997 and lasted a decade.
One victim wrote in an impact statement she “has been suffering to this day from depression.” Another victim stated, “If he was sitting across from me, I’d tell him he deserves what’s coming — jail.”
Wolfe’s sentencing hearing is scheduled to continue tomorrow, when more victim impact statements are expected to be heard.
