Les circonstances personnelles d'un contrevenant ne peuvent pas réduire une peine au point où celle-ci devient disproportionnée

R. v. Williams, 2020 BCCA 286

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[37]      I would add that an offender’s personal circumstances cannot be used to reduce a sentence to a point where the sentence becomes disproportionate. As explained by Moldaver J.A. (as he then was) in R. v. Woodward, 2011 ONCA 610:

[76]      In so concluding, I wish to emphasize that when trial judges are sentencing adult sexual predators who have exploited innocent children, the focus on the sentencing hearing should be on the harm caused to the child by the offender’s conduct and the life-altering consequences that can and often do flow from it. While the effects of a conviction on the offender and the offender’s prospects for rehabilitation will always warrant consideration, the objectives of denunciation, deterrence and the need to separate sexual predators from society for society’s well-being and the well-being of our children must take precedence.

[Emphasis added.]