14 years (indictable) / 2 years less a day (summary)
Sexual interference is a hybrid offence with a 14-year indictable maximum. Under IRPA s.36(3)(a) a hybrid offence is deemed indictable, and the 14-year maximum is serious criminality under s.36(1)(a). Child sexual offences are treated with the greatest seriousness in admissibility assessments; deemed rehabilitation is not available and criminal rehabilitation is the only pathway.
Sexual touching of a child under 16. The serious route carries 14 years, so it is serious criminality regardless of how the case was actually prosecuted. Child sexual offences draw the closest scrutiny of any record, and no waiting period clears them.
Every person who, for a sexual purpose, touches, directly or indirectly, with a part of the body or with an object, any part of the body of a person under the age of 16 years (a) is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year; or (b) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years less a day and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of 90 days.