Former Burns Lake mayor Luke Strimbold sentenced to jail for sexual assault against teens

Former Burns Lake mayor Luke Strimbold has been sentenced to two years less a day in jail after pleading guilty to four counts of sexual assault involving minors.

Strimbold’s time behind bars will be followed by two years probation, a judge determined Wednesday, which will include no contact with his victims.

Crown prosecutors were seeking four to six years in federal prison. Madam Justice Brown recommended instead that Strimbold serve his time in the Ford Mountain provincial institution in Chilliwack.

Strimbold pleaded guilty in May to four counts of sexual assault involving four boys who were under the age of 16. Some of the incidents were said to have taken place while he was mayor of Burns Lake between 2011 and 2016.

Those counts were among 29 charges laid against Strimbold in 2018 — including sexual assault, sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching — involving six male teens.

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