A young Six Nations man with a rough childhood was searching for love when he pursued sexual relationships with two underage girls, impregnating one, a judge said.
Justice Colette Good gave Kolton General, 24, a global sentence of two years when he appeared in Ontario Court to plead guilty to two counts of sexual interference and one count of child luring.
General was neglected as a child and shuffled among family members. He was beaten, turned away by his mother and introduced to cocaine by his father. As a young teen, he was homeless, sleeping in parks, construction sites and apartment stairwells. At 15, General got into a serious relationship with a year-old girl, who committed suicide. As a result, he started drinking. And then his father was killed in a workplace accident. The girl became suicidal because she believed she was pregnant.
Her mother had to call the police to help. At the end of , General started an online relationship with a year-old. A few months later, he met her at her public school, where he tried to kiss her and touch her private parts. She ended that meeting but, a few months later, met again with General. The pair had sex regularly over the next two years. By the time she was 15, she was pregnant but, after she gave birth, their relationship ended because General was arrested for assaulting her.
He used them to satisfy his need to be loved and his sexual desires. The judge said she was particularly concerned that General had met both young girls at their public schools. He also must maintain a three-year probation after his release and get counselling for his past trauma and about appropriate sexual relationships.
