Ex-air cadet volunteer

sentenced to six years for sex

assaults on boys
By: Ian Hitchen Winnipeg Free Press
Posted: 08/16/2013 1:00 AM

BRANDON -- A former air cadet volunteer and scout leader who sexually assaulted boys during
the 1980s has been sentenced to six years in prison.
Judge John Combs delivered the sentence in Brandon provincial court Thursday.

Iain Smy
Iain Kenneth George Smy used his position with youth groups to satisfy his own "twisted"
desires, Crown attorney Nancy Fazenda said.
Fazenda said Smy's need to apologize reaches beyond the organizations, families and victims
he betrayed.

"He owes an apology to all of the children who will never engage in these type of organizations
because of the mistrust and suspicion that acts like these have caused for families who want to
put their kids in good activities but may be afraid to do so," Fazenda said.
Smy, 51, was sentenced on three counts of sexual assault, and one count each of failing to
attend court and breach of a release order by failing to surrender a passport or supply passport
information.
He received five years in prison for sex assaults committed against three boys between January
1984 and November 1988. The boys were between the ages of 11 and 18. One boy was
sexually assaulted hundreds of times.
At the time of the offences, Smy was a member of the military stationed at CFB Shilo. He was
also a volunteer instructor with the Brandon air cadets and a leader for a CFB Shilo-based scout
group.
Smy would groom his victims with porn and gifts and some of the assaults happened during
overnight camping trips.
The crimes came to light in 2007.
An investigation began when the wife of one of the victims reported to Brandon police her
husband had revealed he'd been repeatedly sexually assaulted as a youth by his air cadet
leader.
Two more victims were found during a lengthy investigation, and Smy was arrested in Sarnia,
Ont. in October 2009.
Also Thursday, Smy was sentenced to another year in prison for failing to appear in court and
offences relating to his passport. That raised his prison sentence to a total of six years.
Those charges were laid after Smy led police on an international manhunt. He was out on bail
and supposedly living in Ontario when he failed to appear in court in July 2010. By that point
he'd already fled Canada and was ultimately arrested in Spain on April 30, 2012, and brought
back to Canada.
-- Brandon Sun