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Deadbeat boyfriend
Geez, the boyfriend is high on drugs while she is working and he has the gall to get mad about it! What a creep. 
A Winnipeg man who learned his girlfriend was a prostitute after finding her half-naked with another man received more disappointing news in court Friday.
The 26-year-old had previously pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon after he held a knife to the john's throat and threatened to "mutilate" him.
The Crown had recommended a period of house arrest while the man urged Judge Carena Roller to consider a suspended sentence.
But at a hearing last Friday, the man requested that he instead be granted a conditional discharge, a sentence that would spare him a criminal record and allow him to pursue a job opportunity as a security guard.
Roller was sympathetic but said a conditional discharge "would not be in the public interest" and handed the man a six-month conditional sentence.
Court heard the man was high on drugs when he visited his girlfriend's apartment on Nov. 19, 2006, and found her working as a prostitute.
After assaulting her customer, the man robbed him of his cellphone, cigarettes and identification and threatened him, warning him not to call police.
"I can't imagine what it would be like to go home and find not only that my partner had been cheating on me, but that she had been doing it in the role of a prostitute," said the man's lawyer Cory Hahn.
"Regardless of one's views on prostitution, the feelings of shame, anger and jealousy would be very strong ... These are not likely to be circumstances to occur again."
'PROVIDE STRUCTURE'
Hahn said his client had a long-running drug problem prior to his arrest and had difficulty finding and keeping work. Since his arrest, the man has quit drugs and passed three drug tests.
Hahn argued a conditional discharge would be of greater benefit to his client than a conditional sentence.
"If this is a serious career, it would provide structure to his life long after a conditional sentence order was done," he said. "It's in the community interest to get him working."
The man said he continues to date the woman, who has since turned her back on prostitution and now works two jobs.
"We are both trying to change our lives," he said.
The 26-year-old had previously pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon after he held a knife to the john's throat and threatened to "mutilate" him.
The Crown had recommended a period of house arrest while the man urged Judge Carena Roller to consider a suspended sentence.
But at a hearing last Friday, the man requested that he instead be granted a conditional discharge, a sentence that would spare him a criminal record and allow him to pursue a job opportunity as a security guard.
Roller was sympathetic but said a conditional discharge "would not be in the public interest" and handed the man a six-month conditional sentence.
Court heard the man was high on drugs when he visited his girlfriend's apartment on Nov. 19, 2006, and found her working as a prostitute.
After assaulting her customer, the man robbed him of his cellphone, cigarettes and identification and threatened him, warning him not to call police.
"I can't imagine what it would be like to go home and find not only that my partner had been cheating on me, but that she had been doing it in the role of a prostitute," said the man's lawyer Cory Hahn.
"Regardless of one's views on prostitution, the feelings of shame, anger and jealousy would be very strong ... These are not likely to be circumstances to occur again."
'PROVIDE STRUCTURE'
Hahn said his client had a long-running drug problem prior to his arrest and had difficulty finding and keeping work. Since his arrest, the man has quit drugs and passed three drug tests.
Hahn argued a conditional discharge would be of greater benefit to his client than a conditional sentence.
"If this is a serious career, it would provide structure to his life long after a conditional sentence order was done," he said. "It's in the community interest to get him working."
The man said he continues to date the woman, who has since turned her back on prostitution and now works two jobs.
"We are both trying to change our lives," he said.
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