Benjamin Levin, author of Ont. sex education curriculum sentenced to 3 yrs in jail for pedophile-related activities

TORONTO - A top Ontario educator urged people he met online to "sadistically sexually assault" their children in his quest for sexual thrills, an Ontario judge said in sentencing him to three years in prison.
Benjamin Levin, who once served as deputy education minister in Ontario and Manitoba, "appeared to have it all," Judge Heather McArthur said in her decision.
"He was respected by friends and colleagues and was considered a leading authority on education. He had a loving wife and three grown daughters who treasured him," she said.

But Levin also had a "hidden dark side," the judge said.
"Unbeknownst to his friends, colleagues and family, he had become deeply immersed in a deviant and depraved online world."
Levin, 63, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, making child pornography — a charge stemming from an explicit story he wrote — and counselling the indictable offence of sexual assault. He was originally charged with seven child porn-related offences.

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