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Indigenous man who got ‘huge break’ in sex assault sentencing gets ‘extremely lenient’ penalty for breaching it

An Indigenous offender who got a “huge break” when a judge gave him house arrest for sexually assaulting a woman who was celebrating her engagement to another man just got another one for violating the conditions of his sentence.

Nelson Lesage was sentenced to house arrest in July 2024 for sexually assaulting a woman while she was asleep with her fiancé at Lesage’s home in Fort Providence, N.W.T.

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