A pair of B.C. men in their 80s found guilty of sexual crimes involving children were sentenced to prison time recently — one a former elementary school teacher who assaulted multiple male students more than 40 years ago, the other a man caught with more than 60,000 images and videos of child pornography.

Last week, a provincial court judge in Vancouver handed down an eight-year federal sentence to 85-year-old Brian Melicke Moore for sexually interfering with 12 boys between 1976 and 1982, despite defence counsel making a plea for their client, “an old and frail man”, to receive a conditional sentence allowing him to serve his time under house arrest at a long-term care facility.

Meanwhile, in October, a Supreme Court judge in Victoria meted out a custodial sentence of two years less

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