Man jailed seven years for getting foster child pregnant

Man jailed seven years for getting foster child pregnant

Man shows 'disturbing lack of insight' into his crimes, judge says

Posted By Bob Vaillancourt/The Sudbury Star

Updated 20 hours ago

A young teen who became a mother at the age of 14 because of sex assaults by her foster father wept and hugged her sister and other supporters Wednesday after he was sent to prison for seven years for sexual exploitation.

On the other side of the courtroom, the foster father, Douglas Klasges, 65, showed no reaction to the sentence delivered by Superior Court Justice Patricia Hennessy.


The judge said Klasges has displayed "a surprising and disturbing lack of insight" into what he did.
She described a pre-sentence report on Klasges as "a portrait of a man in complete denial with not a hint of remorse."

Klasges, said the judge, "does not recall having sex," with the victim even after a paternity test.

The victim was formally placed by the Children's Aid Society with Klasges and his wife at the age of 11.

In a statement to police, the victim said the assaults began almost immediately, with hugging and kissing. That led to kissing on the lips, then to sex acts. Soon, he was having intercourse with the girl.

The victim said the assaults were as frequent as three times a week.

By the spring of 2007, she had become pregnant. She gave birth the following February at the age of 14.

Read more in Thursday's Star.

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