Jason Redmond

WARNING: This article contains graphic content and may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it.

An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer found guilty of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman while recording it on his mobile phone should be sentenced to five to seven years behind bars, the Crown told court on Wednesday.

The request by Crown attorney Peter Napier, made during a sentencing hearing in Brockville, Ont. for Const. Jason Redmond, is above the typical range of three to five years.

Redmond’s lawyer Karin Stein suggested the lower end of the range — three years — was more appropriate.

Napier said the longer sentence was necessary given what he described as the “horrendous sexual assault” followed by a “litany of torment.”

“Some cases have such a stark constellation of aggravating features that they call out for an exemplary sentence,” he said in court.

Napier pointed out Redmond remains a police officer.

“To say that one would expect more is a gross understatement,” said Napier.

“He ought to have known the moral blameworthiness of what he was doing and he ought to have known the harm he was causing, and the fact he tried to show everyone what he had done was just deplorable.”