CANADA
Calgary Herald
A former church youth volunteer who admitted more than a year ago to sexually abusing boys and child pornography charges and was facing a long term offender hearing this week, now wants to vacate his guilty pleas.
Kim Ross, lawyer for Roderick Kyle Janssen, told provincial court Justice Catherine Skene on Wednesday that his client does not accept some of the agreed statement of facts presented by the Crown.
Skene, however, that before holding a hearing on vacating the pleas she wanted Ross and Janssen, 36, to review a transcript of the Oct. 31, 2011, court appearance in which he pleaded guilty to 18 charges related to the abuse of the boys over a five-year period and making and distributing child porn.
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