A B.C. man who was convicted of sexually assaulting nine, young, vulnerable boys since 1978 has been declared a dangerous offender and ordered to be jailed indefinitely.
Charles Michael Kavanagh, 62, was convicted of his most recent offence in June 2018 when B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Murray found him guilty of sexually touching a boy under age 16.
Kavanagh was also convicted of trafficking in cannabis and crystal meth, and breaching a recognizance by contacting the young victim, who cannot be identified due to a publication ban.
The Crown proceeded with an application to have Kavanagh declared a dangerous offender, which resulted in lengthy court proceedings.
In a recent decision, Murray noted that all of the boys, ranging in age from 12 to 16, were vulnerable, which made them 鈥減erfect鈥� victims for Kavanagh, who started his sexual offending by using force and fear.
鈥淎s he became more sophisticated he progressed to targeting particularly vulnerable boys, luring them into spending time with him and grooming them over an extensive period of time,鈥� said the judge. 鈥淗e provided them with alcohol and drugs, and preyed upon their addictions, loneliness and in most cases isolation from their families.鈥�
Kavanagh threatened the boys, overtly or subtly, concealed what he was doing from others and then sexually assaulted the victims.
Some were victimized 颅hundreds of times.