Man who was awaiting sex assault sentencing pleads guilty to watching couple
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A Prince Edward Island man who pleaded guilty to a voyeurism charge has been sentenced to five months in jail, which will be extend the sentence he is already serving for an unrelated sexual assault.
Wabaningosi Dingwell, who also goes by Tim Dingwell, appeared in person at the Charlottetown provincial courthouse Monday. He pleaded guilty to the voyeurism charge, while the Crown stayed a charge of sending an indecent text message.
Dingwell, 44, continued to live in the community after being found guilty of sexually assaulting his former spouse in March of 2024. A full year passed between that guilty verdict and him being sentenced in March to 14 months in jail.
It was during that year that Dingwell committed the offence for which he was sentenced Monday.
In reading an agreed statement of facts, Crown prosecutor John Diamond told the court the victim was familiar to Dingwell.
On Sept. 8, she was engaging in sexual activity with her partner in her second-storey apartment when she went to close her curtains.
That's when she saw Dingwell standing outside on a ladder, watching them.
He later sent the woman text messages "alluding to what he had seen."
Police were called and Dingwell was taken to the police station, where he originally denied having watched the couple but acknowledged he was highly intoxicated at the time.
Officers sought a search warrant for his phone that revealed those messages relating to the incident.
Diamond and Dingwell's legal aid lawyer, Julia O'Hanley, came up with a joint recommendation for the crime: five months in jail.
Diamond noted that it was hard to find other cases with similar circumstances for the purpose of citing sentencing precedents. The female victim was stressed in the aftermath of the incident and suffered emotionally, he said, adding that Dingwell was the sole person responsible for that.
The Crown prosecutor, who characterized the incident as "a violation of the victim's sexual integrity," noted that voyeurism offences have been increasing on P.E.I. over the last 18 months.
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