Former CFL player Jerome Messam gets 18-month suspended sentence in voyeurism case – Calgary

A former running back with the Calgary Stampeders who filmed a sexual encounter with a woman without her consent will not go to jail but will have a criminal record.

Jerome Messam received an 18-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to a charge of voyeurism earlier this year.

The court heard Messam and the woman followed each other on social media while he was a running back for the Canadian Football League team and in November 2016 they had dinner together and then had consensual sex at his apartment.

Three months later, Messam sent the woman four 10-second video clips of their sexual encounter on the social media platform Snapchat, which deletes videos after they are played.

Court of King’s Bench Judge April Grosse said Messam did not share the video with anyone else or try to profit from it, but it was a serious breach of privacy.

She says the Crown failed to prove that Messam’s actions were planned and malicious, but giving him a conditional discharge would send the wrong message.