Man gets 30-month sentence for assaulting sex trade worker
By
Betty
Ann
Adam,
thestarphoenix.com
Published:
Monday,
July
30,
2007
A
36-year-old
Saskatoon
man
has
been
sentenced
to
30
months
in
jail
for
sexually
assaulting
a
sex
trade
worker.
Suren
Chetty
pleaded
guilty
earlier
this
month
in
the
Feb.
27,
2007
assault
on
a
19-year-old
woman
he
picked
up
in
the
early
morning
hours
on
20th
Street.
Justice
Mona
Dovell
on
Monday
gave
Chetty
10
months
credit
for
the
five
months
he
has
served
awaiting
trial,
leaving
20
months
remaining
to
be
served.
Dovell
found
that
Chetty
pulled
the
woman’s
hair,
hit
her
face
and
forced
her
to
perform
oral
sex
on
him
and
digitally
penetrated
her.
The
woman
testified
at
Chetty’s
preliminary
hearing
that
his
penis
was
bleeding
and
she
told
him
more
than
once
that
he
should
go
to
the
hospital.
She
fought
him
off
and
he
hit
her
repeatedly
as
she
successfully
resisted
his
attempts
to
remove
her
pants.
He
forced
her
to
remove
her
top.
He
eventually
let
the
woman
leave
but
didn’t
pay
her.
A
psychological
assessment
showed
Chetty
is
a
low
risk
to
reoffend
generally
but
is
a
moderate
to
high
risk
to
commit
another
sexual
offence,
Dovell
said.
Dovell
said
Chetty,
who
had
been
drinking
that
night,
needs
alcohol
and
sex
offender
treatment
to
address
his
risk
to
reoffend.
However
Chetty
will
serve
his
sentence
in
a
provincial
jail,
where
such
programming
is
virtually
non-existent.
Chetty
accepted
responsibility
for
his
actions
and
apologized
at
Monday’s
sentencing
hearing
at
Court
of
Queen’s
Bench.
©The
StarPhoenix
2007
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