Ontario principal pleads guilty in multi-city sexual exploitation investigation
CBC
A Waterloo, Ont., elementary school principal will be sentenced in the new year after pleading guilty to child sexual exploitation charges following a joint investigation that involved the London, Toronto and Waterloo police services.
Phillip Sallewsky, of Kitchener, admitted to communicating online with two teenagers using Snapchat and sharing sexually explicit text messages and pictures earlier this year.
Court documents show the teens were actually undercover officers posing as 13 and 14-year-old girls. Over the course of the investigation that started in February 2023, police said Sallewsky used multiple usernames, including "Sam" and "Chuck."
While Sallewsky was initially charged with 17 offences, he entered a guilty plea in a London courtroom on six charges. They are:
Sallewsky was a principal at Northlake Woods Public School in Waterloo and a graduate of Western University's faculty of education. He has lost his standing with the Ontario College of Teachers.
Sallewsky is scheduled to appear in a London court on January 14 for a sentencing hearing.
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