Victims were three developmentally delayed teenagers, including two students in his care
A former Nanaimo education assistant has been sentenced to six years in prison for sexual offences against three developmentally-delayed teenagers.
In an agreed statement of facts, the court heard that Massick sexually assaulted an 18-year-old, first starting a conversation about sex, then performing oral sex on the teen. The offence took place sometime in 2018 or 2019. The presentence report indicates Massick does not have insight into his offences, said Simpson. He does not want to discuss the offences, or the underlying causes and triggers.
The presentence report says Massick was sexually assaulted at age 13 or 14, and stopped attending high school because he was being bullied. His anxiety increased to the point that he couldn’t be around crowds of people and, at times, he has been unable to work. In a victim impact statement, one teen wrote that he has a pain in his stomach when he thinks about what happened. “I’m scared,” he wrote. “Every grey van I see, I worry that it’s him.”