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20-month sentence for statutory rape of teen
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Man met Chilliwack girl on social media
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Kayli Sartori shows off some of the Magnum hops her family farm is famous for in one of the greenhouses at UFV’s Agriculture Centre of Excellence. BY GREG LAYCHAK glaychak@chilliwacktimes.com
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Torn between hops and hoops, Kayli Sartori is back at school after a year on her father’s famous farm year with her father, Chris Sartori. “It was her idea,” says Chris. “You don’t push on kids what you do, you let them find their way.” Kayli, 22, spent almost every day with him from sun up to sun down doing what her father does every day for most of his life. “I learned what made him tick, I learned what he loves, what he’s really passionate about, what drives him as a person,” she says. A practicum student from the UFV agriculture program who came to
work on the Sartori farm introduced Kayli to the possibility of studying farming formally. And while her father says it was nice having Kayli on the farm to help with the 60 head of cattle and 15 acres of hops, he only had one hesitation about the idea: “She’s so good in basketball, you know when you take a break sometimes it isn’t the same when you get back.” But just as basketball was the main reason Kayli enrolled in UFV in the first place, it was another driving
reason to return to the school alongside her newly-found agriculture diploma studies. At the beginning of this season, around the same time her long-time coach Al Tuchscherer learned he had lost two key players for his Cascades, Kayli walked into his office and asked if she could play for him again. Of course Tuchscherer is glad to have his bronze-medal winning, national all-star player back. “It’s really nice to have that { See COVER STORY, page A6 }
man who met a 15-year-old girl on a popular social media site, picked her up at her Chilliwack school and had sex with her while filming the statutory rape, will spend more than a year-and-ahalf behind bars. In a separate incident, Sheldon James Lowney of Mission also had sex with another 15-year-old girl and filmed that, this time without the girl’s knowledge. The now 24-year-old pleaded guilty in B.C. Supreme Court in Chilliwack to two counts of sexual interference of a person under the age of 16, one count of drug possession and one breach while out on bail. In a July decision posted online last week, Justice Brian Joyce sentenced Lowney to 15 months in jail for the sexual interference of one girl and 14 months for the other. Those sentences are being served concurrently. Lowney was also sentenced to four months for drug trafficking after 318 grams of marijuana were found in his residence during a search related to the rape. It was May of 2012 when a then 15-yearold Chilliwack girl met Lowney on the website Nexopia. He was 21. The two communicated via social media and text messaging for a period of time during which explicit sexual conversations took place. Over the next few months they met several { See RAPE, page A5 }
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ike many university students, Kayli Sartori loves craft beer. But she loves it in a way few of her peers are able to match—her family farm grows the hops used in some of the most coveted wet-hop beers in Canada. And now her love for that family and that farm have combined to bring her back to the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) to study agriculture after a one-year hiatus. But it took that break for Kayli to realize the Sartori farm was what was missing in her life, and she learned that lesson by spending the whole
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