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A Kitchener courtroom marked the end of a long saga in handing down punishment for a former musician, founder of the Renaissance School of the Arts in Waterloo and co-founder of KW Glee, on Wednesday.
Steven Lehmann, 54, of St. Jacobs, heard Justice Nicole Redgate’s decision, a five-year prison sentence for sexually exploiting a young person between 2008 and 2009.
According to details from reporting in the Waterloo Region Record, Lehmann began grooming, manipulating and eventually sexually exploiting a girl he had known since she was 10 years old.
The victim’s identity is protected under a publication ban, and the offences reportedly began when he was 37 and she was 16 years old. Lehmann reportedly had sex with the girl 40 times at his home, office and vehicle.
Lehmann was arrested by regional police and eventually pleaded guilty in court. He has since been forced out of his former business endeavours.
