St. Jacobs musician Steven Lehmann was jailed for five years after a judge said he caused “profound” harm to a former student he met at 10, groomed for sex as a teen, and then silenced with suicide threats.
The KW Glee founder exploited a position of trust in a “calculated” way by having regular intercourse with a 16-year-old, Justice Nicole Redgate told a Kitchener court.
Lehmann, 54, looked down as the judge imposed the higher sentence that Crown prosecutors had called for after the father of four’s earlier guilty plea to a charge of sexual exploitation.
