The Calgary gang chief, who dominated with an iron fist, used a susceptible girl to promote medicine and herself.
Lawrence Orubor ran the legal group ‘The Household’ from 2015 to 2020.
The court docket heard that the sufferer, who can’t be recognized as a result of a publication ban, was homeless and hooked on medicine when she was recruited into the gang to promote medicine to a big homeless camp close to the Calgary Drop-in Centre.
At one level, Orubor beat her up after she misplaced the cash she made promoting medicine.
The sufferer, because the court docket heard, was then pressured into prostitution.
Crown lawyer Fiorella Avolio stated Orubor enticed the sufferer by saying that if the enterprise went effectively, she would get her personal place, and that she would become profitable as a prostitute as a result of she was fairly. Avolio talked about that members of ‘The Household’ referred to Orubor as ‘Dad’.
In her submissions, Avolio argued that Orubor’s management of the sufferer was important, including that he would management her cash, the place she lived, who she noticed, and her provide of medication. She stated Orubor would act with hostility and aggression in direction of the sufferer if the foundations weren’t adopted.
“The willingness of the offender to resort to psychological management, manipulation, and threats of violence all whereas he disguised himself as this beneficiant caretaker, as ‘Dad,’ is exceptionally egregious and insidious,” she stated.
“He sought to maximise revenue on the expense of victims,” she added.
Avolio proposed a sentence of six-and-a-half to seven-and-a-half years in jail to be served consecutively with the 10-year sentence Orubor is already serving for drug trafficking. However protection lawyer Tyson Dahlem argued {that a} consecutive sentence can be ‘unduly harsh’.
“There’s no query that Mr. Orubor’s ethical culpability is excessive. However the query the court docket should deal with to agree with the Crown’s sentencing submission is whether or not or not Mr. Orubor’s ethical culpability is excessive sufficient to warrant a sentence that might lead to 16-and-a-half to 17-and-a-half years of incarceration as a result of that’s the sensible impact of what the Crown is searching for,” he stated.
Dahlem advised the court docket that Orubor has three grown kids and a spouse he described as ‘supportive’.
Earlier, the court docket heard that Orubor would encourage using violence as the top of ‘The Household’ to regulate the provision of medication close to the Calgary Drop-in Centre.
Justice B. Nixon can be handing down his sentence on March 12.
