Sex offender in Ontario gets three years for violating life order at NS
DARTMOUTH, NS — A convicted Ontario sex offender has been sentenced to three years in prison by Dartmouth Provincial Court for violating a court order restricting his internet use and contact with children for the rest of his life.
William John Sempie, 51, was sentenced last week after pleading guilty to violating a 2016 ban that placed him in Cobourg, Ont. employee at Shaw Brick.
Sempie lived at the Jamieson Community Correctional Centre, a halfway house in Dartmouth, on legal release for a 2019 sentence when he committed the crimes between July 2022 and February this year.
Judge Brad Sarson accepted a joint sentencing recommendation from Crown Attorney Rob Kennedy and attorney Giancarla Francis.
The judge deducted 165 days from the sentence for pre-trial detention, giving Sempie two years and 200 days.
This is the second time Sempie has been caught violating the terms of the 2016 warrant, which was part of a sentence he received for plotting a sexual offense against a child, violating a 2013 court order and violating a probationary period. The sentence included three years and 46 days in prison.
In 2019, he pleaded guilty in Kingston., Ont., to four charges of violating court order and was sentenced to four years in prison. The Ontario Court heard Sempie obtained a cell phone, created a fake profile on an online dating website, and entered into an intimate relationship with a woman whose two young nieces were often around.
Sempie told his date he was from the UK, and he spoke with a fake British accent.
After moving into the halfway house in Dartmouth last year, Sempie has not told his employer that he has a criminal record. An employee grew suspicious of him after letters from an internet provider and Amazon packages in his name arrived at his workplace.
The employee Googled Sempie’s name and found articles about his Ontario convictions. After seeing him using a cell phone, she reported him to the police.
Sempie admitted to using a fake online dating profile and fake British accent again in December 2022 to meet a woman.
In 2013, Sempie in London, Ont. He received 14 months in prison and three years’ probation.
“Mr. Sempie poses a significant and heightened threat to children given his unwillingness to comply with a court order designed to protect children,” Kennedy told The Chronicle Herald on Monday.
“He has repeatedly demonstrated that he is deceitful, underhanded and that his behavior is egregious in connection with court orders. The 2019 verdict in Ontario did not deter him. He used the same cover story this time to meet the woman on the dating site.
